A memorable prequel

Rating: 9/10 (27 June 2017)

Rise of the Planet of the Apes is a prequel to 1968 film Planet of the Apes. In this movie we see the story of a new drug that is under testing and it is suppose to heal the minds of those with Alzheimer's, but once a loyal chimp named Caeser is exposed to it as a child he gains super intelligence and leads an uprising of apes. First of all the movie is very interesting, it really does fill in some of the plot holes of the 1968 original. It answers many of our questions like how this went down, who started it, who is to blame, etc. The CGI is also very impressive. The main character here is Caeser and he is amazing. He shows that you don't need dialogue to make a character interesting. The action scenes are very great and well filmed. If was was going to list a negative it would probably be that whenever the film cuts back to the human characters it is not as interesting as the apes. Whenever the film went to them i was saying "Okay lets go back to the apes now."
So anyway in the end, Rise of the Planet of the Apes is a very well made, very enjoyable, interesting, captivating, and it shows that a prequel is not always bad. A- or 9/10