There's more to film making than CGI

Rating: Null/10 (26 August 2011)

Like most people reviewing I have a liking for the original Planet of the Apes movies... BUT, I am getting tired of the lack of originality and reliance on re-inventing past classics with the advent of new movie-making technology. This is yet another example. A great advert for CGI, with the apes being so much more believable than their human counter-parts in the acting department and would probably have done a better job of a believable screenplay and story given enough time and enough typewriters. For example: Guy who looks like he left college a week ago finds a cure for Alzheimers, He breaks all the rules and experiments on father disregarding the obvious negative side effects on his experimental subjects. Spends the next 5 or 6 years working on a fix but then pleads with the guy who runs the research centre not to produce the stuff. Apes jumping through plate glass windows from 50 feet without injury doesn't work. Manhole covers flying 50ft into car windows and just stopping halfway through the window doesn't work. Apes dropping straight to the ground after a tranquiliser shot doesn't work. Gorillas jumping off bridges, taking scores of bullets, to take down a helicopter doesn't work. This is just a "let's revive Planet of the Apes, stick some juicy CGI in and watch them roll in droves and quickly recover our 93 million" movie.
2 for the CGI, that's all it merits