PG-13
Starring Andy Serkis, Jason Clarke, Gary Oldman, Keri Russell,
Directed by Matt Reeves
The Story:
Ten years after the last movie, which quite frankly, I barely remembered what happened, they recap that a simian virus swept through the globe and killed lots of people. As society attempts to rebuild, Caesar (Serkis) leads his band of merry apes in the forests outside of San Francisco as they live pretty peacefully. However, when the local population enters the area hoping to get power from the dam, a tenuous peace between the apes and people is about to devolve into all out war.
At least, by the next movie.
This movie was fine, and was watchable.
Just not a whole lot really happens until the final act, and it's like they were simply setting this movie up as the bridge to Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, or whatever it will be called.
The fragile peace between apes and mankind is of course shattered... but not by who you expect!
Gary Oldman shows up and collects a paycheck!
Seriously.
He's in the movie for about 5-7 minutes total.
Anyone could have played that part. I had 20 minutes free in 2013 or 2014, I could have done that.
:)
The visuals are amazing, as usual.
I'm sure I'll be around to watch the sequel.
And like this one, I'll probably have forgotten what happened previously.
:D
Final Grade: C / C+
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