Enjoyed

Rating: 7/10 (19 April 2015)

What I like about this film is that it creates a new and exciting story to audiences who have no knowledge whatsoever of the original. I've never watched the original but the premise in this gave an appreciation for this franchise.
What you get is a man that raises a genetically engineered ape who will be locked down in a cage with fellow less intelligent apes. The apes look and sound epic and we grow to like them more than any human character
The film does, however, feel like a setup. We've seen how the story started but we didn't get much out of it. We get the consequences of this story by the ending and it does rule. I just feel like we didn't see everything that the story was telling. I feel like there wasn't a lot of connection between all of the apes, but then again this is the beginning of a story and it does right to get us hooked for something more fulfilling.