Over-hyped

Rating: 6/10 (15 August 2011)

This movie was good but not great. What really bothers me is that at the moment it is rated higher than Jurrasic Park, which is absolutely ridiculous.
Bad news: The presentation of the human characters is pretty shallow and cliché. You have the heartless corporation head, the caring sensitive girlfriend, the young asshole punk who you know will get what is coming to him. Even James Francos performance was lacklustre compared to the effort he put in to 128 days. However the clichés do not stop at the characters as the film rips story line from Deep Blue Sea, Jurrasic Park, Resident Evil among others. Finally I feel the producers areat fault with the trailers made for the movie. The entire movie issummed up during 30 second TV commercials. There is not much of a novel experience in the theatre.
Good news: The CGI technology carries this film. It is incredible how far special effects have come. The apes really steal the show with a runner up prize going to the director for the ape scenes.
6 out of 10 for amazing technology and cool computerized action sequences