Twenty Minutes Too Long

Rating: Null/10 (5 September 2011)

Rise is about twenty minutes too long, but other than that it's pretty good. One can do a lot with computer generated apes - and the director takes advantage of this very fact. The first part of the story grabs you, but the middle is where I started to lose interest. The last part was all disaster flick - it's what sells I guess. In my opinion, this movie would have been fantastic if the ape somehow helped the scientist find a real solution for the disease of the father, then the story could unfold with a battle to get a proper drug past the evils of the pharmaceutical industry agenda - that would have been a smart drama. Instead, the ape gets angrier looking as he grows - and at the end - not even an " I love you" or "I'll miss you" is said - just emptiness and no resolution of the feelings between man and ape or ape and man.