Rise of the Planet of the Apes is a movie that keeps you wondering what is going to happen next. It was directed by Rupert Wyatt, who before this was known for Subterrain which is about A Pastor who was taken on a journey by the spirit of a Train Driver. Back to the movie at hand, it was written by Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver while it was inspired by the characters from the book written by Pierre Boulle.
I will have to admit this movie was a little slow for me at the start, to the point of almost losing my interest but I wanted to know what was going to happen to Ceasar so I kept watching. The focus of this story is Caesar (Andy Serkis) a chimpanzee who seems to have gained human-like intelligence and emotions from an experimental drug his mother was given. After Ceasars mother was put down for terrorizing a pharmaceutical lab he was raised like a child by the drug's creator, Will Rodman (James Franco) and Will's girlfriend a primatologist Caroline Aranha (Freida Pinto). After things happen Caesar ultimately finds himself taken from the humans he loves and locked up with other apes in an ape sanctuary in San Bruno. Wanting to escape, Caesar gives all the apes a drug which makes them as intelligent as him. The apes assemble an army and escapes the sanctuary - what happens next could change the planet forever.
My favorite scene in this movie is the one in the photo above where Steven Jacobs (David Oyelowo) walks into work and sees hundreds of apes all around him. Its amazing because not only does the actor do a great job and make it believable but it also has a bit of humor to it because he walks in all calm and then he is like OH SH**. Granted he doesn't say that but his reaction to the room speaks louder than his words and you just know that is what he is thinking.
In this movie you have to give credit where credit is due and that would be the visual effects department which consists of Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, R. Christopher White, and Daniel Barrett. Without the apes this movie would not have happened and these guys made them look real. They even got nominated for an Academy Award for their work which tells you that it is some amazing work.
Overall I would give this movie a B+, the story and the fact that it made me feel it was believable and wanting more is why I gave it the grade I did. If you haven't seen it check it out!
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