That was an excellent one.
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... View MoreGood films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.
... View MoreAn old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.
... View MoreThe best movie with special effects i have seen in the last 10 years. It shows what great people can make together. Some of it was a little predictable but it makes up for it with superb acting.
... View MoreGreat ending to a the rebooted trilogy. Amazing special effects and a touching story.
... View MoreAfter building up Caesar and the other apes in the first two films, this third one seems so contrived - especially the last twenty minutes - it almost ruins what is otherwise an interesting film. Here, the super smart chimpanzee, his family and all the other primates that supported him on the last movie are up against an American Colonel (Woody Harrelson), his assortment of monkey hating soldiers - so not much change to the previous films - and also "Donkeys"; apes who support the humans. All have complicated relationships which the film could have developed further, rather than the cliched ending that went from action to completion faster than a monkey up a tree.Obviously, the special effects are amazing. The interaction between human and ape are pretty flawless. Nova (Amiah Miller) may get shoe horned into the film, but the way she is able to interact with Maurice (Karin Konoval) is pretty impressive. And watching Bad Ape (Steve Zahn) careen around with his extremely expressive is a comic interlude from all the serious activities going on on the screen.For the most part, the film was alright. Right up until after the Colonel has probably the longest spoken scene in the film (which isn't hard when you know only one ape can talk, though all the apes can understand English), it moved at a good pace. It just seemed like the producers then felt they needed to wrap it up in a nice, complete manner, which maybe wasn't needed.
... View MoreWar for the Planet of the Apes starts of a with an exhilarating battle scene in the forest between apes and humans. The humans are no match to the now battle hardened apes led by Caesar who shows the human survivors mercy and offers them a truce.However the soldiers led by The Colonel (Woody Harrelson) and aided by a few of Koba's surviving ape supporters, attack Caesar's fortress killing his wife and son. Caesar swears revenge but finds himself imprisoned with the rest of the apes who are treated as slaves having to build a wall. The humans are still affected by Simian flu which makes some of them mute. A mute girl, a zoo monkey and a few of Caesar's allies must mount a rescue attempt of the imprisoned apes so Caesar can take them to a desert paradise.The story may have inspiration from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness with the Colonel character. However after a promising beginning this becomes a dull, stupid film. The story is clunky, illogical and ponderous. As the final part of a trilogy that promised so much, I thought they might deliver a conceptually interesting ending but that was too much to hope for.
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