Apes; they will take over the world in due time but before they do, watch Rise of the Planet of the Apes because is just that, the Rise part. But I'm getting ahead of myself fellow freedom fighters, Brandon here to talk about the remake before the sequel to the remake comes out. That sounded confusing, well anyways lets talk about one of the greatest reimaginings that Hollywood has ever done. Besides the Thing. This movie is literally the beginning of the Apes becoming intelligent beings. You follow the first smart ape Caesar whose mom was apart of a science experiment to help cure alzheimer's and it made him very intelligent more than most high school kids today from what I can tell. You follow his life with Will Rodman who saved his life and raised him, to his prisonlike ape sanctuary, to freedom. I didn't think it was possible for me to care about a character who doesn't say a word of english and is just a chimp, but I did. I was thinking poor Caesar, or hell yeah kick his ass! The story is a character piece that is very well done and in the end makes you so excited for the sequel you can't hold in the throbbing hard on when you hear Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. The acting cast is done well enough but the human actors for the most part are throw away. Not saying anyone did a bad job it is just this story focuses on Caesar and the other apes to the point where you're like "why are we seeing his story again?". Andy Serkis is Ceasar which my first thought is who else would be. Now he does mainly the motion capture for him and talk about a guy who dreams about being a ape. Every movie I've seen him in he is doing motion capture for something that moves like some kind of primate. Give this man an Oscar already shit. James Franco is Will he is a young scientist with a sick father, and a hot ass girlfriend. He raises Caesar, an it explains why Caesar doesn't hate humans at all he pities most of them. He is the father figure in this movie and James Franco shows he actually can be a serious actor when he wants to be. David Oyelowo he is Jacobs which is the antagonist of the film. He is a business owner who only cares about profit. Now the guy isn't a bad guy but his actions aren't ape friendly which vilifies him in Caesar's mind. The director is Rupert Wyatt who did an amazing job retelling the Planet of the Apes franchise. Lets just say he didn't Tim Burton it up. He completely got rid of the Tim Burton remake by doing this movie which is praise enough sadly he will not be directing the sequel. I can't tell you what Wyatt has done he doesn't have a huge filmography yet but I see him becoming something big in the foreseeable future. He did a great job on focusing on Caesar instead of the human characters which makes me happy cause until the astronaut thing happens the apes have to be the main focus. In the end this movie is fantastic and has one scene that still brings chills to my spine. I love this movie and I brought The Planet of the Apes back and made it relevant again. This was a great reboot and I cannot wait for the new one coming on the 11th of this month. So grab your guns and shoot some monkeys because they will rule us and I for one don't wanna be some apes dog. Until next time film folks.
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