Hail Caesar! Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes.

Does Andy Serkis deserve an Oscar? I don't care. Was this movie any good? Absolutely.This is a definite buy on Blu-Ray.The sequel to the pre-prequel to the re-boot of the original movie. Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes.

Intense.

Ten years after what happened in the previous movie,with the simian flu nearly wiping out the entire population of the world,a group of genetically enhanced chimpanzees with Caesar as the leader is now living as a colony just outside San Fransico. When a small band of human survivors emerges,leading to an eventual conflict of interests, it poses Caesar with the dual challenge of protecing his own kind and reestablishing a working relationship with the humans,the latter being his personal wish.

This movie stepped it up on every level,like a sequel should. Be it the the characters or the plot.Oh,was the plot interesting!This movie took quite a few unexpected turns.Just when I was starting to think-"Okay,so this is what it's going to be about",the movie decided to take a completely different route (this happened more than once).I like when a movie does that.Makes it unpredictable,in a good way.

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It's really cool to see the ape colony just--exist.They're still growing,sure,but they are there.As for the characters,I think the main human character,Malcolm(Jason Clark) does a fairly good job but he's just overshadowed by Caesar.Caesar just seems to be in command.You could compare Caesar to Malcolm,trying to sort things out without violence while trying to make sure of the safety of their own people.Gary Oldman's in this movie and he's good as well.

CGI in this movie was pretty good.There were close up shots of Caesar that looked.No.'Felt' very real to me.Partial credits go to Andy Serkis. Morally, this movie is not clear cut 'black or white'.It's in the moral grey zone.It makes you question whether humans deserve to be the dominant species or whether the apes are the real threat.While Caesar believed that apes were better than humans,there is a point in this movie where he ponders on how very similar they are to humans.

Overall,I loved the characters,the situation the tension--pretty much everything about this movie. You could compare this franchise to the Dark Knight Trilogy.Both are arguably better than the previous adaptation(s),having a pretty decent first movie and the sequel being even better.Let's just hope that War Of The Planet Of The Apes becomes an anomaly to this comparison(admit it,Dark Knight Rises could have been better).

So have you seen this movie.What did you think about it?What movie should I review next?Comment below.