An Amazing Film, you will use your brain and your heart!

Rating: 10/10 (12 August 2011)

I went to see this film yesterday and wanted to watch it again immediately! My partner and I left the cinema and went straight to buy the previous films. It is an amazing storyline, amazing acting and the CGI is mind-blowing. You tend to forget that you are not watching real apes.
So... The storyline goes that a med company is trying to develop a new drug to cure Alzheimer's and are testing on apes. One ape they test is showing an extraordinary amount of intelligence and they name it bright eyes. While Will (one of the main characters and the man leading the research) is trying to sell the new drug to gain permission for human testing, bright eyes goes crazy and it is ordered that all the apes are put down. However... It turns out to not be the drug causing the change In bright eyes but the fact she had given birth and was trying to protect her baby.
And here enters Caesar!
Caesar is one of the most lovable, interesting and exciting characters I have ever seen in a movie. Caesar gained added intelligence from the drugs his mother was given when she was carrying him. The film shows its growth from a baby to an adult (brought up like a child by will) and his intelligence progressing to that of a human. You will fall in love with him and I found myself crying in the cinema at some points.
I don't want to spoil it so I wont write too much but it shows as Caesar develops so does his questioning of his upbringing and he becomes angry and resentful. Thus bringing him to form an "ape army" and the rest is history.
This is a happy film, a sad film, a scary film, an action film and a thought provoking film. This is a definite must see . You will laugh, cry and it will make you think about the possibilities of humans destroying ourselves with too much power.
Please see this film.