A good movie with some mildly annoying action sequences

Rating: 7/10 (7 January 2012)

Rise of the Planet of the Apes is one of those movies that turned out to be much better than most would have expected. The plot is actually good, the CGI is good though the CGI isn't good enough for what the movie is trying portray.
The CGI in this movie is very good and certain scenes, but other scenes seemed a bit rushed where some mild hiccups come up here and there. Surprisingly some of the best CGI isn't on the star of the show Caesar, but actually on his orangutan friend who moves and looks very life-like. I won't spoil too much of the plot and will only mention parts of the plot that are pretty obvious in the trailer.
Caesar is the son of an experimental ape who was injected with a new drug that is supposed to cure brain diseases. Caesar was supposed to be killed, but the protagonist takes him home as an infant and raises him. Through a series of traumatizing experiences, Caesar decides to march an army of apes out of San Francisco and try to escape into the wild.
That is as much I will tell you. One of the nice things that I liked about this movie is that Caesar is not heartless, and isn't after revenge. From the trailers it looks like it, but in the movie Caesar tells other apes not to kill because killing is not their main motive. They want to be free, not to be murderers. The actions sequences are pretty good except with a couple of major problems. I know some of you will laugh at me for this, but this is the biggest issue that gets me in all movies: Police, SWAT or any kind of protection force are not made of complete idiots. Some major issues I had was when the apes push a bus across the bridge to use it as a mobile shield. The Swat start shooting at the bus for no apparent reason, but on a side note the guns they were using would've torn clear through the bus and killed the apes. The apes in this movie also seem to be very resistant to bullets.
There are some inconsistencies that bothered me such as there being about 20 apes in a facility, then when they are escaping there are around 50 or more. It's a good movie, and honestly what bothers me the most is when a movie is very realistic, spends enough time on a good plot, has a realistic plot as well, and yet they don't have enough time to fix the tiny things. I guess what I'm saying is that if you have time to make everything realistic, at least make the guns realistic as well.
Good movie! Definitely worth watching!