An opening title card tells us that this is 65 million years ago. Spaceship pilot Mills is piloting a colonisation ship when it is hit by an asteriod, causing it to crashland killing all aboard except Mills and a girl called Koa. Mills establishes that there is an escape pod in another part of the ship 15 kilometres away, so he send a distress message and they set off to reach the escape pod. There are 3 small snags: 1) they speak different languages, whuch makes communivation difficult, 2) they have to make their way through shedloads of dinosaurs and other assorted nasties, and 3) the clock is ticking away before a scuffing great asteroid smacks into the exact point where the escape pod is. Yes, folks, it's Earth 65 million years ago. Given the film's title, this hardly a spoiler.
This is one of them there high concept films. Translation: an incredibly simple idea, albeit one which is slickly executed. There are wafer-thin slivers of backstory inserted to give a bit of weight to Mills' character, though none at all for poor Koa (her parents die in the crash, Mills tells her they didn't, and that's it). It's a wonder that Ariana Greenblatt does as well as she does in making Koa so sympathetic, gien how little dialogue she has, most of which in unintelligible. Adam Driver is OK, but doesn't do as well as Greenblatt. Perhaps this is because his character is written as unlikeable despite some opening backstory to show him as sympathetic.
The action is excellent and the special effects are mostly first class. The story is simple but perfectly adequate. I do think the script would have benefiited from more work, though.
This is one of them there high concept films. Translation: an incredibly simple idea, albeit one which is slickly executed. There are wafer-thin slivers of backstory inserted to give a bit of weight to Mills' character, though none at all for poor Koa (her parents die in the crash, Mills tells her they didn't, and that's it). It's a wonder that Ariana Greenblatt does as well as she does in making Koa so sympathetic, gien how little dialogue she has, most of which in unintelligible. Adam Driver is OK, but doesn't do as well as Greenblatt. Perhaps this is because his character is written as unlikeable despite some opening backstory to show him as sympathetic.
The action is excellent and the special effects are mostly first class. The story is simple but perfectly adequate. I do think the script would have benefiited from more work, though.