65 (film)

WORKING

65. Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, directors, script, producers (two of five, including Sam Raimi). Kevin Ishioka, production design.[1] USA: Columbia, Raimi Productions, Beck/Woods, et al. (production) / Sony Pictures Releasing (distribution), 2023.[2] 93 minutes.[3]

SF survival/quest film, relevant here for the object of the quest's being an escape shuttle and for images of not exactly "a machine in a garden but the hulk of a spacecraft in a very-late Mesozoic/Cretaceous forest. Throughout the film, we have a totally-human-looking humanoid in that forest trudging through carrying some sophisticated high-tech; later in the film, the girl he is with creates her own weapon from what looks like a huge tooth and the juice of a poisonous plant (cf. and contrast Moon-Watcher and the bone weapon in 2001: A Space Odyssey (film) and novel.

RDE, finishing, 24Mar23