I was waiting for either of them to stand up and become central to the storyline, but that just wasn’t part of the script. Having said that, the film has some slow passages that could have been trimmed by a more aggressive editor and both Nova and Preacher are rather wasted. It’s a film about relationships and communication, though it also features some quite intense battle scenes in the film that will undoubtedly rival the upcoming WWII film ‘Dunkirk. There’s very little tech it’s definitely post apocalypse.
In this installment, there are no cities and very few primitive fortresses. The entire story takes place in the woods and in a few encampments. Most interesting of those soldiers is Preacher (Gabriel Chavarria), who has increasing reservations about how the humans are treating ape prisoners of war. They adopt her and she serves as an emotional counterpoint to the rabid Colonel and his troops. This tears at Caesar’s basic pacifist beliefs too: does he want to kill the Colonel as an act of revenge, or to protect apekind?Ĭaesar, Maurice, Rocket and “Bad Ape” go off on their own mission to confront The Colonel and encounter the little human girl Nova (Amiah Miller), abandoned in the wilderness after her father is killed. It’s foreseeable that they could be completely wiped out by the gung-ho Colonel (a definite nod to the insane and dangerous Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando) from ‘Apocalypse Now’). ‘War for the Planet of the Apes’ takes place two years after the previous film, ‘Dawn,’ and the war between ape and man isn’t going well for the apes. This is the mirror illness, turning smart humans into dumb humans (literally and figuratively) even as it raises apekind to the apex of Earth’s predators. The first film explained how a well-intentioned genetic experiment gave rise to intelligent simians with the ability to speak. Making the situation far more challenging is the disease that is spreading throughout the humans that causes them to lose the higher cognitive functions along with the ability to speak. But The Colonel has other things that drive him too, other choices he’s made that have led to almost unbearable guilt and despair. To stop that, every last one of them must be killed. At one point The Colonel explains that apes are becoming smarter than humans and it’s just a matter of time before apes rule the planet. Their goal is complete genocide.īecause of the great tension between the two characters, the scenes between Caesar and The Colonel are by far the most interesting and compelling of the film. Caesar is haunted by the spectre of the angry rebel gorilla Koba and insistent on his own need for revenge on The Colonel (Woody Harrelson), an increasingly unhinged human who is leading his troops on a search and destroy mission against apes. Smart, strategic and eloquent, he has led his wife Cornelia, young son Cornelius, and a large group of monkeys far into the Northern Californian woods, trying to stay far away from humans. The story this time is much more about the apes than the humans, revolving around Caesar (Andy Serkis), the ape leader of the simians. It’s ceaselessly dark, actually, and in both subtle and overt ways borrows much from the Academy Award winning ‘Apocalypse Now’ and the psychological POW drama ‘Bridge on the River Kwai.’ Does this third film in the reboot succumb to the curse or does it live up to the first two films? The answer is surprisingly complicated, because ‘War for the Planet of the Apes’ is a powerful and engaging film, but it’s dark. Still, ‘Planet of the Apes’ has the curse of bad sequels. Both featured excellent effects – including an award winning motion capture performance by Andy Serkis – and respected, tied into, and expanded the original story to reflect modern technology and sensibilities. The reboot of this franchise has been one of the best success stories of modern Hollywood, however, starting with the smart, engaging ‘ Rise of the Planet of the Apes‘ (2011) followed by ‘ Dawn of the Planet of the Apes‘ (2014). The box office numbers reflected this reality and killed the series. The sequels became increasingly awful, however, and by the fifth installment, ‘Battle for the Planet of the Apes,’ the story had become truly excruciating.
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The original ‘Planet of the Apes’ movie series started with one of the very best science fiction films of the late 1960s, starring Charlton Heston as an astronaut who has mysteriously travelled hundreds of years into a future Earth where simians are ascendant and mankind are chattel.
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