Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes

This movie’s title speaks for itself; Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes. The whole movie revolves around how the apes rise above all else to make ‘Evolution to Revolution’. Hence, the tagline.

The movie begins with Will Rodman (James Franco), a scientist finding a cure to Alzhemier for his dad, uses apes as the test subjects through the invention of ALZ-112. When an ape goes loose and create havoc, his research is shut down. However, the ape that created havoc was only doing it to protect her baby. The baby is smuggled out of the lab and looked after by Will. He named the ape Caesar after the dad was quoting from the literature of Caesar. After years, he learned that the virus introduce to the mummy ape is inherited by the baby making the ape intelligent. This prompts the doctor to try it on his dad. And it works…at first. The human antibodies reacts to protect the body (which is a good thing because at least we know our antibodies work). However, for the apes, they gain intelligence. With that, they aren’t pets anymore.

Then they went on a rampage to reach the woods but is stopped by humans. The whole rise of the apes movie revolves on the beginning of the rise. It ends with a possible sequel. One thing that was cool, the ape can talk, only Caesar though. The first words ‘NO!’. All they wanted was to return home; ‘Caesar is home’ (another word mentioned by Caesar).

Upon reading through websites,this movie was intended to be an alternative to the previous movie. To me, it’s kind of like the previous movie where the astronaut return to a different world. So, imagine this new movie as another alternative earth.

Overall, the movie displays a good balance that animals are not violent for the wrong reason, just based on instincts and some human touch to it. For human, a balance of not all are violent too. The movie is interesting to watch but it is a 50-50 decision if I want to watch for a second time because some movies is just suited to watched once.