Is This It?

Rating: Null/10 (31 August 2011)

I don't understand what all the fuss is about, I mean it must be the product of diminished expectation ... because I felt like I moron watching this.
There's this one character - who is, technically, the catalyst for all the "rising" that transpires - to whom your immediate reaction is, "What in God's name is your problem?!", shortly followed by, "WHY ARE YOU EVEN WORKING THEIR?!". There are also lots of scenes of stuff going wrong in a lab but it's not in that edge of your seat "these are very dangerous experiments you guys are conducting. I guess knowing what you'd gotten yourselves into kinda makes your PWNAGE fair" fashion, it's more "these are very dangerous experiments, YOU IDIOTS. Did you not know what you were getting yourselves into?".
There are a handful of Hollywood moments here and there, to make it all easier to swallow but it being easy enough to swallow as it is, they just made it all the more boring.
It's not terrible, I do like the fact that Caesar's growing smarter only brought him further in touch with his "ape side", it was a refreshingly un-condescending thing to see but, really ... who cares? It's still quite an unremarkable film and I'm left wondering where all the proper blockbusters have gone.
Go and see 'Super 8'