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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Fast Five (2011) 4/5 Stars

The Fast and Furious movie franchise has been a hit since its first movie in 2001. Focusing on a street racing, the series has the whole element of action and thriller on it.

After fascinating the adrenaline of the fans with the 4 previous installments, Fast Five is like the sequel that is being put on the top of the icing.
In this last series, directed by Justin Lin, the characters are nicely developed with a subtle twist in the plot here and there. The nice cars, their whole plan of robbing the number one mob in Rio de Janeiro will put your heart pumping and excited with it.

The former undercover cop Brian O’connor (Paul Walker) is teaming up again with Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel). They are being helped by Dominic’s sister Mia Toretto (Jordana Brewster), and they also call in a team of street racers that has previously appear on the last 4 sequels.
The team includes The Chatterbox Roman Pearce (Tyrese Gibson), tech guy Tej Parker (Ludacris), Han Lue (Sung Kang), Gal Gadot (Gisele Harabo), Tego Leo (Tego Carderon) and Rico Santos (Don Omar).
They plan to rob off Hernan Reyes, the mob type businessman in Rio to get out for good and find a country with no extradition.

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson also join the cast as FBI agent Hobbs who is hunting on Brian and Dominic with a super Hummer tank look alike car.

The cast delivered best acting so far for the series and the humor and storyline in this last installment is much more engaging.

Even at the end of the credit there is a teaser for the next Fast and Furious.

It is a worth waiting movie with all the hype about the whole installments.


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Water for Elephants Movie (2011) 3/5 Stars

This movie is set in 1931 in the great depression time.

Jacob Jankowski (Robert Pattinson) raised in a Polish family in America and studying to be a Vet like his Dad. But in the midst of his exam he is informed a shocking news that his parents died in a car accident.

Young Jacob then find himself adrift with no house and no family.

While walking on the side of a train track he jumped into a train for a free ride that he thought might take him to another city. But as faith brought him on board,The train belongs to a second rate circus group filled with circus performers, workers, animals and the boss of the circus group the charismatic August (Christopher Waltz) and his beautiful wife Marlena (Resse Witherspoon).

There is only one thing to say about this movie! It is beautifully made!

Robert Pattinson brought about a nice potrayal of Jacob. A young man struggling for life and love. The shots in this movie is beautiful as well. There are so many emotional up and down felt in this movie. It makes me forget that Edward the Vampire is in the movie. So, kudos for Robert Pattinson for taking it up another level of good performance.

Christoph Waltz and Resse Witherspoon

The talented Resse Witherspoon perform nicely it is hard to tell whether a stunt made that jump up and down the horse and elephant. The chemistry between her and her two male co-stars are blended nicely.

But Christoph Waltz! Oh, Christoph Waltz! Man, this dude sure brings the key performance. As the brutal circus owner and a possessive husband. I love this guy! He's so good. I think he can play any role!

Anyway, this novel adaptation movie itself is worth watching. Francis Lawrence makes it shocking beginning, funny in the middle and tragical and so many other emotions could come up while watching this movie.

It is a suitable movie where you can take your boyfriend and girlfriend to watch.

3 out of 5 stars

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