Fairly good

Rating: Null/10 (19 September 2011)

* Might contain some spoilers *
I don't know if they're connected, but I watched another movie where Apes are controlling over humans. It was amusing but unfortunately I forgot the name.
However, Rise of the Planet of the Apes is an well-acted, scripted and produced movie; definitely better than any other movie that went out through summer break.
It brings action, emotion and rips everything good out of it rolling it in one nice slice of almost 2h fun. It is filled with humor, irritating characters, good-bad (black'n'white) characters, fairly noticeable soundtrack, well done CGI and above all amazing acting. Franco(Will) brings out everything that his character is. An deeply committed and caring son with only one goal left within his life : to find a cure for his father. Set aside of it, he creates visual chemistry between him and Cezar(ape) that small amount of actors can do. From first look, I didn't see mayor flaws in his acting but it was probably because I had kind a low expectations for this movie since I'm not huge fan of Sci-fi of last years.
Going on with actors, Freida(Charoline) was okay, surely could have done better job, but she was mostly shadowed by others so maybe she didn't get enough chance.
John(Charles) nailed this movie. I mean, I'm familiar with him as an great actor and one of my favorite roles was the one in Dexter where he plays serial killer, but this brings out the other side. Playing an character that requires to perform an mental illness and to convince audience that you actually possess that illness isn't easy job but he pulled it out throughout to the end. He's an amazing actor and I hope to see more of his work in the brief future.
Others were mostly just follow-up actors, but I kind a liked David(Steven) and Tom(Dodge) following up. David played an standard corporate drug seller whose only goal is to find a way to get more money and he pulled it off. As for Tom, he get used to play a role of the bad guy so he stood quite a good out there, guarding chimps and torturing them now and then.
Movie is a worth watching and gives you brief moment of fun but it won't last long in your head. It's like FAF - you see all the action once, it's not fun seeing it again.