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The human characters aren’t quite as strong. It’s everything that the creators of the original franchise dreamed of, Dynamic apes who completely emote, but still are incredibly animalistic. Watching Caesar interact with them and in very subtle ways build camaraderie with them as they team up is one of the great joys of this film. There are also plenty of other apes who get quite a bit of personality here. Serkis performs more here with digital replications of his eyes then most actors can with their entire body. Over the course of this film, we get to see Caesar’s decent from optimism to disillusionment, and with very few words, Serkis manages to completely embody this evolution. The master of this craft is Andy Serkis, and here he gives what is by far his strongest performance to date as Caesar. By placing an actor into a suit that tracks each of their movements and mannerisms, those affections can then be adapted into a computer generated character. The process used here is known as Performance Capture. While the human performances are definitely worth mentioning, the real dramatic achievement here comes from the marriage of technology and acting used to bring the apes to life. While certainly darker then before, it never becomes too heavy, finding those nice little grooves for humor and humanity to balance out some of the more grim moments.
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Gone is the sardonic, campy tone of previous entries, and in it’s place is an extremely emotionally grounded story with a heavy focus on character, both human and ape alike. The key to a great reboot is to establish a completely new tone from the previous iteration, and ‘Rise’ masterfully achieves this. Fed up with this, Caesar befriends the other apes and forms a rebellion against the injustices of humanity. However, once Caesar gets out of hand, he’s forced to live a life of captivity in a barbaric ape shelter run by John Landon (Bryan Cox) and his arrogant son (Tom Felton). As such, he sneaks him into his house, names him Caesar (Andy Serkis) and raises him as his own. While testing the medicine on chimpanzees, he discovers that one chimp in particular demonstrates increased intelligence.
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Dr Will Rodman (James Franco) is a scientist attempting to create a serum that can cure Alzheimer’s decease which his father (John Lithgow) is affected with. We start off eons before the other films, in present day San Francisco. From the ashes of one of the worst remakes of all time, Rise of the Planet of the Apes emerges like a phoenix from the ashes to right previous wrongs, and sets the franchise off on a new and exciting path. Often times a rejuvenated version of a classic story can be just about the most innovative thing out there. They cry and holler about how “there’s no originality in hollywood” or that the studios are just “regurgitating old franchises for a quick buck.” They’re wrong.