This movie started as a 4 for me, and then it just started dropping as the story continued. I went in expecting something really good and walked out pretty let down. I have a handful of problems, so let's just dive in without a specific order.
I cannot side with the primary character. At first, she seems reasonable due to what has happened in the past, but you start to understand the situation better as we move along. So that…
So I was told that this movie is kind of soft-core porn. Of course, that means it was picked for movie night with ten people in a room. Luckily, the movie is a really good movie on its own merits regardless of the sex scenes.
I was originally a little bored with the beginning. Then about 10 minutes in I was a lot more invested. The trip itself became such a great road of character development. The main cast works…
I don't know why I didn't go out to the theater to see this when it came out. This is a pretty great end to the prequel trilogy. I really like that the humans have not all banded together against the apes. Instead, you're seeing that the Apes are mearly a part of the apocalypse world instead of the primary focus. The humans don't lose because of the Apes. The humans lose because of the humans.
The 'cerebral palsy phase' sequence in this movie might be one of the funniest things I've seen in a long while. What, so Daniel Day Lewis does it and he gets an Oscar, but DiCaprio throws himself down some stairs, drives a car, and saves Jonah Hill from choking on a slice of ham and he goes home empty handed? Seriously though, pretty solid movie if you're looking to watch a terrible person do progressively terribler things for three hours.…
