65 is an underwhelming motion picture, which isn’t fresh or really big news in the pantheon of mainstream Hollywood releases.
Many of its flaws, including too many sources of conflict within the narrative or characters you struggle to get invested in, are ones motion pictures have been grappling with for decades.
However, one very specific shortcoming of this movie is how it handles dinosaurs.
65 is the rare big-budget theatrical film to utilize dinosaurs that don’t belong to the Jurassic Park franchise.
Such scarcity of these titles should make anything new on the big screen involving prehistoric beasties a welcome treat.
Instead, 65 demonstrates a fascinatingly ill-advised approach to realizing monsters that have captivated the imagination of moviegoers since the dawn of cinema itself.
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