Disappointed

Rating: 3/10 (3 March 2012)

I had to shut this off after 15 minutes. The movie was fine to start--I got used to the CGI almost immediately and the emotion in the eyes of the apes was wonderful. It's when the human actors came on that the script fell apart.
1st strike-- No pharmaceutical engineering company is going to allow a drug to even be considered for human testing based on a single sample (one successful sample) and without extensive subsequent testing for side effects. There is simply too much money at stake. The James Franco character would not have gotten as far in his career as he had if he had been that rash and foolish all his life. The script lost tons of credibility in just the first five minutes.
2nd strike-- In spite of the apparent failure of the one chimp, no corporate CEO would shut down the entire program immediately. The biologists would continue the study, find errors and exceptions and make adjustments.
3rd--The baby is discovered. The biologists who study the apes would not have known Bright Eyes was pregnant? Give me a break. In a real test program the chimp subjects would have been health monitored daily or at least weekly--blood draws, EKGs, etc.--and the pregnancy would have been discovered in its early stages.
The script writers could have set up the initial premise of the movie in a more reasonable manner. Instead they took the lazy way out. I like science fiction where the characters are realistic and behave as actual people in the real world behave, even when faced with incredible circumstances. The Matrix, 2001, the original Planet of the Apes--the science fiction becomes credible if it is based on real world laws and the lead characters behave as humans actually do and not as script devices. I have no idea how the rest of the movie was but if it was like the first fifteen minutes then forget it--great acting by Andy Serkis or not.