In Conquest, an intelligent chimpanzee named Caesar leads an uprising of his oppressed kind against their human masters, and that rough outlines serves as the blue-print for Rise of the Planet of the Apes. What ends up on screen is a reboot establishing a new series, but is also a re-make of 1972’s Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, the fourth installment in the original series and the best film after the original. I only know that I enjoyed it more than anything else this summer, fannish Captain America love excepted.Įarly news about the upcoming “New Apes” film was sketchy about what exactly it would be and how it would sit with the continuity of anything produced in the franchise before - which was quite a mess already. Rise of the Planet of the Apes is a movie that is either good or great, and I won’t feel comfortable placing a ten-dollar chip on either square at the moment. Or, it might become a modest good memory, a film people return to occasionally but don’t think about much beyond saying, “That ‘Apes reboot thingy’ was a sort of cool flick.
It feels possible that Rise of the Planet of the Apes will achieve the status of a movie that people watch over and over again on whatever the top home video device of the day will be, and which will sell perennially in each new “Special Edition” released.
This film may require years before I can grasp how it stands in the science-fiction world. I don’t mean over a couple of weeks, or even months. But I need more time to figure out if it is a great movie. Dramatic, exciting, technically marvelous, intelligent. Starring Andy Serkis, James Franco, John Lithgow, Brian Cox, Freida Pinko.Īt the moment, I know that Rise of the Planet of the Apes is a good movie.
0 kommentar(er)
