Terrible

Rating: Null/10 (10 September 2011)

This is a bad movie folks. I don't understand why everyone else loves it so much, personally I just think nothing else good was out around the time. The only planet of the apes movie I've ever seen prior to this one is the Tim Burton one and even though the ending of that one made me kind of angry, I still enjoyed it. In Rise of the Planet of the Apes I just didn't connect with any of the characters, they all seemed shallow to me. You're supposed to FEEL something for one side or the other and I could of cared less whether the apes got annihilated or if they took over the human race and emerged victorious. The ending was lame too. (SPOILER) Okay so at the end the monkeys run off into the woods, then it's roll the credits. Really? That's it? At this point the monkeys are a few hundred or something in number, and they just ransacked a city. Oh well, we've got nuclear weapons, automatic machine guns, and a far superior military, but let's just lay down and die. They just ransacked a city, but we're not going to go after them with tanks and machine guns, we'll wait until they become powerful and can overthrow us. Stupid. Gollum played Caesar. Who cares? Give me a hundred bucks instead of millions and I can make some chimp sounds too. Everyone is raving about him in the reviews. He made some chimp sounds. Yeah. Great. Give him an Oscar.
I hated this movie. So much in fact that I made an account so I could write a review. I am REALLY hard to disappoint when it comes to movies but this stinker was so bad I had to write a review.
I like franco and lithgow(was happy to see him again after so long) but their characters are easily forgettable.
If Franco's character had died it would have MADE the movie. Caesar should have killed him at the end or something. THAT would have been cool. He was just some sissy running after his pet chimp the whole time. He should have died, lol. Maybe I sound like a lunatic but the planet of the apes movies are based off of the whole gloom and doom idea, this movie didn't end with that feel to it.
Let Christopher Nolan take a shot at the sequel and maybe I'll check it out.