I just don't get how this movie has a 80+% from both critics and viewers on RT... I really weep for the future of good entertainment. Other than the long shots of the apes moving, which were clearly real animals, every single closeup of the apes took me out of it.. Its fucking Jumanjia... They don't look right, they don't move right.. Caesar swinging through Franco's house at the beginning was completely ridiculous... AFAI can tell, no one who is amazed by the cgi'd apes has ever seen real apes... Cause apparently they can all jump through reinforced plate glass windows without sustaining even a cut...

Aside from that supposedly amazing cgi, it was downright bad.. Other special effects took me out of it, like such a glaring difference between all the cgi and the few real effects, it seemed thrown together imo.. Good effects should not be noticed, should seem seamless so you don't know whats real and whats not.. The effects in this always had the glossy, phony cartoony look... I would call all the effects B grade.. A step above a Syfi channel movie, but no where near worthy of a large budget blockbuster...

Dialog/script totally corny.. The writers should be ashamed.. The only actor worth a damn was John Lithgow. I wonder if they even had scripts?

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The worst ending ever... Its like they couldn't figure out how to end it.. so they just said "okay, lets stop filming now".. I'm like really, thats it? They tear up San Fran Police Dept and humans throw in the towel and let the apes head for Red Wood National/State Forest... Which I had no idea was immediately across the GG Bridge from San Fran????? Where is the national guard?

Sure it could be a great concept, but it had nearly zero substance.. Even the shit in the lab seemed half-assed and cobbled together and completely unrealistic... That has to be the most unsafe lab facility in the history of lab facilities....

Guy gets a ape taken from him by court order from almost killing his neighbor and his work doesn't find out about it?? It doesn't make the news??? They don't ask if it has anything to do with the research apes that he fucking works with? Really??? Thats believable?




IMO this seems like a movie that never got beyond the vague idea stage and yet they produced a "finished" product... Its like they made the story boards and didn't add anything to it...




Give it a 2 of 5 and that's being generous...