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| Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | Release Date: August 5, 2011 |
Starring:
Andy Serkis, Freida Pinto, James Franco
Summary:
Rise of the Apes is an origin story in the truest sense of the term. Set in present day San Francisco, the film is a reality-based cautionary tale, a science fiction/science fact blend, where man's own experiments with genetic engineering lead to the development of intelligence in apes and the onset of a war for supremacy. [20th Century Fox]
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Aug 4, 2011
As both a simian simile and a wonder of technology, Rise of the Planet of the Apes deserves to be in the company of the great original "Kong." This year's sixth "origins" story of a fantasy franchise (after The Green Hornet, Thor, X-Men: First Class, Green Lantern and Captain America: The First Avenger) is also the year's finest action movie.
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Aug 3, 2011
Aug 4, 2011
As tight as the parallel homo sapiens storylines are lax, Caesar's prison conversion to charismatic pan-ape revolutionist is near-silent filmmaking, with simple and precise images illustrating Caesar's General-like divining of personalities and his organization of a group from chaos to order. All of this is shown in absorbing, propulsive style, as Caesar broodingly bides his time like a king in disguise awaiting restoration.
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Aug 3, 2011
Aug 3, 2011
Thanks to stunning advances in performance capture technology, director Rupert Wyatt successfully ditches the cumbersome makeup appliances of past chapters, building the story around a cast of photoreal CG simians convincing enough to identify with as characters, rather than just special effects.
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Aug 6, 2011
Aug 6, 2011
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Dec 29, 2011
only one word for this film brilliant. rise of the planet of the apes is a fantastic film with brilliant graphics cgi and a great cast. a great story and a great action movie the best ape movie ever yes better then king kong. and also in my top 3 for film of the year.
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Sep 26, 2018
Exciting, action-packed and well-acted, "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" is a fantastic summer blockbuster with a well-written story and script.
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Aug 29, 2011
If you want to know how the apes got to be top banana, this movie will explain it all to you. Be prepared for role reversal, because you will not be pulling for your own species, and maybe rightly so. How some people treat animals is unconscionable.
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Jan 26, 2017
"Rise of the Planet of the Apes" was one of the very good stories I've seen. The plot, and CGI effects of the apes was outstanding, the performances were good, and it should be said that this was one of the good stories made in Hollywood.
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May 20, 2013
I liked Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes, but this, I didn't enjoyed at all. Tons of apes destroying cars, attacking people, not good.
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