A short story turned into a long and deeply flawed film

Rating: 4/10 (3 September 2012)

I don't know what the fuss is about, or the high score, because this isn't a good film and it uses material which has been better developed and more inventively used elsewhere. Sure the action is mostly cleverly done, although there are some rather poorly put together moments. The acting is competent but the ape to human interface isn't quite so polished as it seems.
Basically we have a brilliant scientist looking for a cure for Alzheimer's (his father is in serious decline from it) by testing potential cures on chimpanzee. Of course what benefits a person can also have side effects and so the action in this film begins.
The plot's credibility depends on the act of bonding (or rather ganging up - see the difference) and it is that element which escapes the human side completely whilst engendering the apes with a togetherness not seen in the wild.
It left me mildly entertained for thirty minutes and then just watching a pretty poor development of what could, and should, have been a really good movie.
Four out of ten.