The CGI has gone too far. Apes looked fake --> movie looks fake

Rating: 6/10 (30 January 2012)

The movie was mildly entertaining but so much of it was lost by the terrible use of CGI. Whatever happened to using trained apes or even people in suits for this type of work? Maybe only used CGI to enhance the movie? This is what ruined it for me. I won't go into plot details, but even from the previews you could tell that these CGI apes moved like they were in some kind of video game. And since the apes are in almost every scene, in fact the protagonist is an Ape, the whole movie feels like watching a video game. CGI has been so abused that you need to go back to older movies like Alien & Aliens and Die Hard to see action and sci-fi done right.