As a fan of the Rise of the Planet of the Apes series, I watched this movie with a pilgrimage in mind. As we all know, this is the final chapter of the rise of the Planet of the Apes, and the great Caesar will also usher in his swan song.
The beginning of the movie is a lean jungle or ape war, the fierce battle scenes are accompanied by the quiet virgin forest and the magnificent sky waterfall. The landscape is very layered, making people immersive and accompanied by a deep and heavy soundtrack, and the overall coordination is very textured. The death of his wife and children and the crisis exposed by the ape home made Caesar finally on the road of revenge. The scene of the four monkeys riding across the beach is extremely tragic, and so far is perhaps the greatest thirty minutes of the film.
The next hour and a half was a sheer humiliation of the audience's IQ. It can be seen that the director is ambitious to stuff this film with humanistic feelings, human judgment, and even Jesus-like suffering. However, there are too many flaws in the script. Knowing that there are apes rebelling but still planning to escape, the group is robbed, and there are little girls in the military camp and they turn a blind eye. The stupid soldier who had to lock himself up, the big man who was stabbed to death with a bayonet, the Caesar who was terribly wounded and traveled across the desert, the list goes on. And the movie spends most of the time in the military camp, the plot develops slowly, and it seems that it is full of human discussions, but there is no new cliché. In the end, a new home was created, and the old leader died in old age. The more you look at it, the more uncomfortable it is, and it smells and grows. I really don't want to say goodbye like that.
The little girl is a more brilliant character, innocent and cute and inherits the consistent theme of man and ape. The talking orangutan plays the harlequin and is responsible for laughing and attracting audiences, but this superfluous approach turns the original serious movie into popcorn. No guarantee for the evening.
This is called losing one's mind. Hope: God's to God, Caesar's to Caesar.
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