Starring Adam Driver and Ariana Greenblatt. Written and directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods. Produced by Sam Raimi. Budget $45-91 million dollars. Running time 93 minutes.
So, 65 million years ago a space pilot called Mills is tasked with flying a two-year space expedition to take settlers to an unnamed planet when his space ship is hit by an asteroid and he crash lands on a mysterious blue green planet orbiting an ordinary looking yellow sun and he finds himself alone on a planet ruled by dinosaurs, a sort of Planet of the Dinosaurs if you will.
With his spaceship smashed in half, his cargo of human passengers scattered across the landscape and all dead, and with no hope of rescue, Mill's decides to end his life. However when a warning signal starts bleeping, Mills realises there's one more survivor, a young girl, and he sets out to save her. With the girl retrieved, Mills discovers Koa (Ariana Greenblatt) for that is her name, speaks no English and the pair set off on a 12 kilometre hike to the other half of the spaceship where an escape pod still works. Along the way they have the occasional run in with a series of terrible lizards, have to deal with quagmire of quicksand, a perilous spot of spelunking and an impending date with destiny and a fucking great big asteroid.
Armed with only his fantastically powerful laser blaster and some alien tech, our hero, the grief-stricken pilot and his young charge set off for some mild shits and giggles romp offering nothing that exciting and certainly nothing original, which is a great shame.
The idea of a pair of humanoids battling to survive on a planet of dinosaurs is a fantastic idea and if the film had had the budget to realise it properly then I think this would have been really exciting and action-packed adventure. As it is, it barely rises to the level of mild excitement, there are one or two action beats, but these are seriously hamstrung by a hero whose gun can kill with a single blast. Also, rather than a thousand different types of beasties we have four and one of those seems to have been made up, resembling more a long limbs humanoid like dinosaur creature with cunning intelligence who stalks our heroes relentlessly.
The ending's never in doubt, the countdown with the impending asteroid is a hoot and overall this is mildly entertaining.
Adam Driver, is great in everything he does and he has to do a lot in this carrying the film almost entirely on his shoulders. Making his costar unable to speak English was a big mistake and robs this film of having any meaningful connection, between cliched solitary words of English the girl has learned.
The effects are passable, luckily the film makers opted for most action taking place off camera, or in the rain, at night time or in a cave complex. And that's it.
The film is unintentionally funny and the first laugh occurred when the the main title revealed itself to also be the film's opening caption: 65 MILLION YEARS AGO.
Which is oddly enough also the score of the film, bar the odd million or so.
So, 65 million years ago a space pilot called Mills is tasked with flying a two-year space expedition to take settlers to an unnamed planet when his space ship is hit by an asteroid and he crash lands on a mysterious blue green planet orbiting an ordinary looking yellow sun and he finds himself alone on a planet ruled by dinosaurs, a sort of Planet of the Dinosaurs if you will.
With his spaceship smashed in half, his cargo of human passengers scattered across the landscape and all dead, and with no hope of rescue, Mill's decides to end his life. However when a warning signal starts bleeping, Mills realises there's one more survivor, a young girl, and he sets out to save her. With the girl retrieved, Mills discovers Koa (Ariana Greenblatt) for that is her name, speaks no English and the pair set off on a 12 kilometre hike to the other half of the spaceship where an escape pod still works. Along the way they have the occasional run in with a series of terrible lizards, have to deal with quagmire of quicksand, a perilous spot of spelunking and an impending date with destiny and a fucking great big asteroid.
Armed with only his fantastically powerful laser blaster and some alien tech, our hero, the grief-stricken pilot and his young charge set off for some mild shits and giggles romp offering nothing that exciting and certainly nothing original, which is a great shame.
The idea of a pair of humanoids battling to survive on a planet of dinosaurs is a fantastic idea and if the film had had the budget to realise it properly then I think this would have been really exciting and action-packed adventure. As it is, it barely rises to the level of mild excitement, there are one or two action beats, but these are seriously hamstrung by a hero whose gun can kill with a single blast. Also, rather than a thousand different types of beasties we have four and one of those seems to have been made up, resembling more a long limbs humanoid like dinosaur creature with cunning intelligence who stalks our heroes relentlessly.
The ending's never in doubt, the countdown with the impending asteroid is a hoot and overall this is mildly entertaining.
Adam Driver, is great in everything he does and he has to do a lot in this carrying the film almost entirely on his shoulders. Making his costar unable to speak English was a big mistake and robs this film of having any meaningful connection, between cliched solitary words of English the girl has learned.
The effects are passable, luckily the film makers opted for most action taking place off camera, or in the rain, at night time or in a cave complex. And that's it.
The film is unintentionally funny and the first laugh occurred when the the main title revealed itself to also be the film's opening caption: 65 MILLION YEARS AGO.
Which is oddly enough also the score of the film, bar the odd million or so.
6/10
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