Refreshingly Excellent

Rating: 8/10 (15 October 2011)

I was a little worried when I decided to watch this movie. Most movies lack plot, character development, and most of all care. After watching the movie, I left feeling that there are still people out there that care about making movies and are not out there to make a buck off of a franchise.
One thing that I love about this movie is its pacing. It takes its time showing the growth of Caesar and showing his interactions with people. The movies spans a couple of years and shows changes in most of the lead characters. At no point did it feel rushed, and it never tried to throw too much storyline at once to try to tie up loose ends or to just bridge action.
This leads to my one complaint of the movie. If it were a rated R movie it could have been amazing. That fact that the humans were killing the apes on screen but the apes would never kill a human, besides the one "villain" of the movie. Don't dumb down violence to get a PG-13 rating. People are just too sensitive now.
Still, it was a great movie. Good: Strong Acting, Great Story, Good pacing, good use of CGI. Bad: Violence is only towards the apes.
Great movie and good use of the ending credits.