There are great hints at where the sequels might take us, as well as a few unsubtle references to previous films, including a shuttle mission to Mars that should come into play later.
Let’s call it the not-too-distant future. Wyatt feeds the exposition relentlessly, bringing us up-to-speed on a world that feels slightly removed from our own. You get the sense that it was a longer, fuller film at one point, making the prospect of an extended cut inevitable.
Which isn’t to say that Director Rupert Wyatt doesn’t bow to mainstream demands this is a fast picture that hurtles toward its effects-heavy coda. The set pieces evolve organically from the plot, with an investment in the protagonists that will allow even the harshest film buff to overlook the insanity of it all. Rise is praise-worthy at a time when Hollywood blockbusters have little interest in characterisation and pacing. Slowly but surely, Caesar plots both an escape and a revolution. Here, he is viciously mistreated by owner Landon (Brian Cox) and his son, an odious little shit named Dodge ( Harry Potter‘s Tom Felton).
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It soon becomes clear that this particular ape is extraordinarily smart.įollowing a series of aggressive incidents, Caesar is taken away to an ape sanctuary, which houses hundreds of chimps, orangutans and gorillas. After an early embarrassment that leaves the lab in disarray, he is forced to take his work home with him raising baby chimp Caesar (a mo-capped Andy Serkis) into adulthood. Well-meaning geneticist Will Rodman (James Franco) has discovered what he believes to be a cure for Alzheimer’s, a drug that boosts the intelligence of test chimps but creates a fatal virus in the process. Against all odds, it’s the best stab at the concept since Charlton Heston’s fateful discovery on a beach 43 years ago.Īs is customary with any apocalyptic scenario, the end comes with the best of intentions. Rise of the Planet of the Apes maintains the sociopolitical underpinnings of Boulle’s creation, while delivering a full-throttle slice of escapism that resuscitates a well-trodden idea. It also delivered a brutal twist ending that remains infamous and somewhat untouchable. This is the origin story we were denied by the 1968 original an adaptation of Pierre Boulle’s sci-fi novella that observed human politics via our closest relatives. This isn’t your father’s Planet of the Apes.įox’s franchise reboot has been hesitant to call itself a prequel, divorced from the previous five films and Tim Burton’s poorly-judged 2001 remake. A future dominated by primates is still a glint in a chimpanzee’s eye. The apes rise, that much is true, but they have yet to conquer.
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