Rise of the Planet of the Apes Reviews

It stays true to the central metaphor of the original films and takes its time setting the story up so that when the apes finally do run amok, we are totally invested in the story.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

The movie is most compelling when it thinks about the ape and the human's likeness (and so critiques racism and speciesism), when Cesar and Will face each other or respond to one another.

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Precuela innecesaria y obvia, en la que nuestra suspensión de la incredulidad se verá desafiada no pocas veces. En una película donde no hay lugar para grandes actuaciones, la mejor labor actoral es, por supuesto, la del mono.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

The original centered itself around some weighty ideas involving race, politics, and social class. Those same ideas may exist here, but director Wyatt doesn't really care.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4

Rise of the Planet of the Apes is spectacle with a kick: the transcendence of the normal in creatures so like ourselves is both an entertainment and a needling rebuke to human vanity.

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Sporadically profound, not unlike a riff on the "Dawn of Man" chapter from 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Full Review | Original Score: B+

Suficientemente bem realizado para não envergonhar a série clássica e ainda nos apresenta àquele que, ao lado de Zira e Cornelius, talvez seja um de seus personagens símios mais tocantes, complexos e memoráveis.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

In what is easily one of the better films of the year, director Rupert Wyatt, with a first-rate screenplay, melds thrills with wit and state-of-the-art special effects to create a flick you're ready to watch again as soon as it ends.

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There is no reason for this movie to exist.

Full Review | Original Score: F

The familiar contagion plotline prevents the film from achieving the allegorical charm or cautionary impact of the 1968 original.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

The film has a hackneyed "the-bad-guys-are-us" plot on which to hang some interesting special effects.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10

The action scenes (particularly a battle between humans and apes on the Golden Gate Bridge) are inventively spectacular, and the story at the movie's core is evocative and engaging.

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Like an old-school science-fiction flick, the film is surprisingly character driven until a final rousing action sequence, and that's all to the good.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10

I did find it a surprisingly agreeable afternoon's entertainment.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

Distinguishes itself from other ill-conceived reboots in general, and from Tim Burton's disastrous 2001 remake in particular, by looking with fresh, simian eyes at its core conflict between human and primates.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

A sharp critique of human nature from the standpoint of our closest relative, the chimpanzee who comes off as much more civilized than those who maintain prisons, zoos, and fight wars against weak and defenseless nations.

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Andy Serkis once again gives a master class in expressive, nuanced, powerful physical acting.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

A surprising amount of heart comes from our CGI ape. It's a worthy prequel that makes you excited where the series can go.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10

This is, by some distance, the most exciting action adventure of the year. At just 105 minutes, Rise... shows how you can also make a rounded, full-blooded blockbuster in double quick time to leave audiences wanting more.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

Takes advantage of the spectacular advance in special effects over the past 40 years but adds little by way of imagination or insight into our appreciation of the original film.

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