History Film / SixtyFive

* PrehistoricMonster: Nearly all the dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals are shown as vicious, ugly, predatory animals that are trying to kill the two protagonists, routinely giving up easier prey to try and hunt them, even small ones that attack them like rabid dogs. The only benign dinosaur they encounter is itself almost immediately killed by a pack of raptor-like dinosaurs. The film seems to give off the impression that it's a ''good'' thing they're all about to be wiped out, so the Earth can be rid of such vile, slobbering beasts.

* PteroSoarer: A rare (semi)inversion. While the pterosaurs in the film have their own issues (see the ArtisticLicensePaleontology entry above), they're actually far more accurate overall than ''any'' of the film's dinosaurs. Helps that, along with the juvenile [[MixAndMatchCritters theropod-thyreophoran things]], they're the only creatures in the film that actually seem to behave somewhat like real animals.

* The large quadruped T-Rex like dinosaur during the film's climax is allegedly a Fasolasuchus which, like the alleged Lagosuchus, hailed during the late Triassic not the Cretaceous.

Driver plays Mills, a space pilot for an exploratory mission who finds himself stranded with a young girl on a hostile planet after their ship collides with an undocumented asteroid. The twist? That planet is a prehistoric Earth, 65 million years prior to the present. Now the two must find their way back home while both contending with some of history’s biggest predators.

* AdvertisingByAssociation: The trailer plays up its creator’s past work on ''Film/AQuietPlace'', as well as Creator/SamRaimi’s involvement.

* EyeScream: One creature is attacked in the eye on two separate occasions; Mills shoots out one eye while trying to force it away after it attacks them in a cave, and [[spoiler:Koa stabs a branch in the other when the creature is about to attack Mills]].

* [[HerbivoresAreFriendly Herbivores Are Friendly]]/[[PredatorsAreMean Predators Are Mean]]: The predatory dinosaurs are one and all portrayed as vicious, slavering beasts; and the one non-hostile animal encountered is, predictably, a herbivore.

* HumanAliens: The main characters hail from a far-off planet known as Somaris, but look and act exactly like humans so the fact they're aliens factors nil into the plot. Their civilisation having several offworld colonies implies that they're ancient humans who evolved on a different planet before eventually colonising Earth.

* MinimalistCast: There are only 4 onscreen human characters in the entire movie.

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: During the climax [[spoiler:the escape ship cannot launch as it is upside down. While trying to attack Koa, one of the theropods knocks it over so that it is now in the launch position.]]
* NoNameGiven: Mills's wife never gets a name, only being called "Nevine's Mom" in the credits.

* RaceAgainstTheClock: Later in the film, when Mills confirms that an approaching asteroid is going to hit Earth, he and Koa are faced with a race to get to the escape craft before the asteroid strikes. [[spoiler:They literally take off ''as'' the asteroid enters the atmosphere]].

** In a rather unconventional take on the trope they also have quadrupedal animals that look and behave a lot like your standard movie raptor.

* {{Robinsonade}}: As his narration in the trailer explains, the main character is trapped with a young girl on an alien world… or rather, prehistoric Earth.
* ShoutOut: it's probably not a coincidence that the antagonistic, quadrupedal theropod looks like a supersized version of [[Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom the Indoraptor]].

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The fate of the protagonist’s wife is never revealed. Also, [[spoiler:a final hologram of Nevine mastering the whistle can be seen, but it is unknown if this is really her.]]

*** The late quadruped might be an attempt to depict a rauisuchian, prehistoric crocodile relatives with erect gaits and strikingly tyrannosaur-like skulls, some of which like ''Fasolasuchus'' could get to pretty large sizes. If that's the case, then they are still inaccurate in that it looks ''too'' much like a ''Tyrannosaurus'' and has the wrong body anatomy, and it is still ''much'' too large. They also lived in the Triassic with the very first dinosaurs, not at the end of the Cretaceous

* NotUsingTheZWord: Mills and Koa never refer to the animals as "dinosaurs" or "creatures". Justified as they're not from Earth and have never even heard of Dinosaurs before.

** Additionally, several carnivorous dinosaurs are quadrupedal, which no known theropods were.[[note]]The idea that spinosaurids, at least, may have been semi-quadrupedal has surfaced several times on account of some members of the group having proportionally short legs coupled with long arms, but most current researchers regard this as highly unlikely.[[/note]]

** Additionally, several carnivorous dinosaurs are quadrupedal, which no known theropods were.

* MorePredatorsThanPrey: Almost every animal appearing in the film is a carnivore, including theropods, pterosaurs and animals that look like [[AnachronismStew early archosaurs]] (namely ''Lagosuchus''). The only herbivores that appear are the remains of a dead hadrosaur and a juvenile, [[ArtisticLicensePaleontology bipedal]] ankylosaur.

** The pterosaurs, although fairly good for what is ostentatiously a mid-budget B-movie, have teeth and long tails; long-tailed pterosaurs are last known from the Late Jurassic, while pterosaurs with teeth are last known from about ninety million years ago, long before the K-Pg boundary.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The fate of the protagonist’s wife is never revealed. Also, {{spoiler| A final hologram of Nevine mastering the whistle can be seen, but it is unknown if this is really her.}}

* DelicateAndSickly: Mills's daughter Nevine has an unspecified lung ailment; his wife convinces him to take the two-year mission because doing so will triple his pay, giving them the chance to afford effective treatment. [[spoiler:Sadly, it's a moot point, as she dies while he's on the mission.]]

* ChekhovsGun: Mills stumbles onto an acidic geyser early on, with the skeleton of a tyrannosaur lying on top of it. [[spoiler: After he runs out of ammo trying to kill the last of the theropods that attack him and Koa during the climax, he leads it into another such geyser to kill it. It takes two blasts to do the job.]]

* HumanAliens: The main characters hail from a far-off planet known as Somaris, but look and act exactly like humans so the fact they're aliens factors nil into the plot. their civilisation having several offworld colonies implies that they're ancient humans who evolved on a different planet before eventually colonising Earth.

* AncientAstronauts: The protagonists are HumanAliens who have crash-landed on Earth during the Late Cretaceous.

*** The late quadruped might be an attempt to depict a rauisuchian, prehistoric crocodile relatives with erect gaits and strikingly tyrannosaur-like skulls, some of which like ''Fasolasuchus'' could get to pretty large sizes. If that's the case, then they are still inaccurate in that it looked ''too'' much like a ''Tyrannosaurus'' and had the wrong body anatomy, and it is still ''much'' too large. They also lived in the Triassic with the very first dinosaurs, not at the end of the Cretaceous

*** The late quadruped might be an attempt to depict a rauisuchian, prehistoric crocodile relatives with erect gaits and strikingly tyrannosaur-like skulls, some of which like ''Fasolasuchus'' could get to relatively large sizes. If that's the case, then they are still inaccurate in that it looked ''too'' much like a ''Tyrannosaurus'' and had the wrong body anatomy, and it is ''much'' too large. They also lived in the Triassic with the very first dinosaurs, not at the end of the Cretaceous

*** The late quadruped might be an attempt to depict a raisuchian, prehistoric crocodile relatives with strikingly tyrannosaur-like skulls. If that's the case, then they are still inaccurate in that it looked ''too'' much like a tyrannosaurus and had the wrong body anatomy, and it is ''much'' too large. They also lived in the Triassic with the very first dinosaurs not at the end of the Cretaceous

* NotUsingTheZWord: Mills and Koa never refer to the animals as "dinosaurs" or "creatures".

* HumanAliens: The main characters hail from a far-off planet known as Somaris, but look and act exactly like humans so the fact they're aliens factors nil into the plot. The fact that their civilisation has several offworld colonies implies that they're humans who evolved on a different planet before eventually colonising Earth.

* HumanAliens: The main characters hail from a far-off planet known as Somaris, but look and act exactly like humans so the fact they're aliens factors nil into the plot.

* DavidVsGoliath: The final battle has Mills going up against a pair of T-Rexes, followed by the theropod that attacked them in the cave earlier. He manages to kill all three of them.

** The Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event that killed the non-avian dinosaurs, according to radiometric dating, happened 66 million years ago -- a million years before the movie's events, supposedly, take place.

* RaptorAttack: The raptors shown in the film are the standard scaly predators popularized by ''Franchise/JurassicPark'', although they do have a faint covering of proto-feathers along the back. Interestingly, the film takes pains to show a variety of sizes of raptors, including one that's a spot on size match for the actual ''Velociraptor''.