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?
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...
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