Thursday, 29 September 2011

Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) 4/5 Stars

Rise of the Planet of the Apes starring James Franco as Will Rodman, a brilliant scientist who is researching for the cure to Alzheimer disease.

At first the test of the cure was done to Bright Eyes, who was showing advanced improvement in its intelligence and become smarter. Because of an incident , the company was shutting down the research, calling it a failure. Will who himself has a father with Alzheimer (Charles played by John Lithgow) was sure that his cure is useful brought home Caesar, Bright Eyes’ baby Chimp.

Caesar inherited the intelligence her mommy chimps gained after being injected with Will’s cure.

After another 5 year, Will watches as Caesar shown increasing intelligence even surpassing human kids. As his father Charles worsened with the Alzheimer, Will decided to inject the cure on him. His father was temporary cured and worsened later on after the body immune system fight off the cure. Will is then rushing to make a more powerful cure.

Caesar who is an adult chimp were caged at the primate centre owned by John Landon (Brian Cox) and his son Dodge (Tom Felton) after he defended Charles from Will’s neighbor Hunsiker (David Hewlett).

In that Primate Centre Caesar who was used to affectionately taken care of by Will, Charles and Caroline (Freida Pinto) has to faced a harsh treatment from Dodge and the other caged Chimps.

He then after feeling left and disappointed with his intelligence made the decision to free all the apes from the human.

The Rise of the planet of the apes is a pretty good movie with a decent casting. Although the actors did not get to do too much for the roles except James Franco who is the main character. This is one apes movie indeed.

The Chimp Caesar was really nicely made. The eyes expression, the sign language, shows that every creature not just human longed for care and acceptance.

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