the apes rise together with you!

Rating: 9/10 (16 August 2011)

nice summer flick. i watched this several hours ago. it is, by far the best film of 2011 in my opinion.
let me say that it has some great acting and is well scripted. i liked all the characters. caesar is an intelligent genius. Will Rodman is a strong character who shows considerable emotion throughout the movie. his father is a well developed character who is unfortunately stricken with alzheimer's. his neighbour is a crazy guy and i think they chose the right actor for this role. the rest of the characters were good, but there was one who was actually quite abusive.
nice and smooth plot. here, we see Will Rodman's experiment turning out to be a temporary success and then eventual failure for humans with his neighbour, his dad, and that abusive guy all part of the reason behind that failure. actually, no you could say it's his fault testing the drugs on apes in the first place, as revealed in the trailer. like most humans, he doesn't really care much for animals and unfortunately learns the very hard way that what he was doing was wrong. i saw no plot holes at all. the movie is hugely focused on caesar and the apes made in such a way that you end up hoping the apes would win :). your first thought when walking out of the cinema is "long live the apes!", which is the reason why this review is called "the apes rise together with you". but, the interesting thing is that the humans don't too much seem to be enemies either.
the movie has good actions scenes. they succeed at doing them without huge amounts of explosions, even though that's kind of what i wanted. some nice special effects. there is a long period of time without any action scenes, but you still end up being interested. each time you view an action scene, you end up wanting the apes' victory. you might end up demanding more action by the end of the movie, though.
it wasn't exactly a "can't-get-your-eyes-off-the-screen" type of movie, in my opinion it came the closest to falling under that category out of all of the movies i watched so far in 2011.
but all in all, it had a lot of elements that deserved a high rating. that's why my rating is an 8.5/10. i find it quite a good idea to watch films like this on tuesdays, for $6 at a price much cheaper then other days :).