A man's own experiments with genetic engineering lead to the development of intelligence in apes and the onset of a war for supremacy.

Rating: 8/10 (10 August 2011)

If you were like me and you had seen the original movie with Charlton Heston, you were dreading the day that this movie came out for two reasons. 1. The movie was in CGI. I loved the original ape movies because of its practical effects and costumes, so when I saw it was in CGI my hopes went a bit more down. 2. The remake before suck. In 2001 Tim Burton made an apes movie and sucked big time, so seeing that there was another remake made me pretty angry.
I went into the theatre ready to hate this movie and tear it a new one, but I came out liking it. The acting for the most part was pretty good. You could actually feel the chemistry between James Franco's character and Caesar(the main ape.) The CGI was decent but at times look very weird and the whole movie you can tell that Caesar didn't look right. Aside from that the movie was very well done the second best ape movie in the whole series. There were a few minor plot holes here and there, but you get over it.
The one main thing that brings the movie down is Tom Felton who you might know from the harry potter movies as Draco. He says a line in the movie at the most dramatic part in the movie so be ready for that cause it takes you out of the movie when he says that line.
Like I said I went into it hating it and came out liking it. If you haven't seen the original I would watch that one first so you can catch some of the references, but it isn't essential. Check out Rise Planet of Apes. I'm sure it's a movie you'll surly go ape for(pun intended)