The action is split nicely between Caesar’s efforts to convince his uncertain family to trust the humans, and survivor Malcolm’s (Jason Clarke) to be worthy of that trust failure means mass slaughter thanks to agitators on both sides (Toby Kebbell and Gary Oldman respectively). Thing is, the dam sits smack in the middle of Ape Home, where super-intelligent Caesar (Andy Serkis, reprising his exceptional motion-capture performance) has brought his fellow primates after their escape from captivity. Most of humanity has fallen to the “simian flu” accidentally created by James Franco’s well-meaning Alzheimer’s researcher in Rise the immune have established a colony in the ruins of San Francisco, but dwindling fuel stores have forced them to venture north to see whether a disabled dam might be a viable power source. Taking over from Rupert Wyatt, director Matt Reeves (Cloverfield, Let Me In) establishes a more thoughtful and mournful tone for his story, which takes place at least a decade after its predecessor. Motion-capture technology just gets better and better – and so do the Planet Of The Apes reboots.ĭawn Of The Planet Of The Apes is the true starting point of this new Apes franchise, harvesting the useful plot points of 2011’s clumsy Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes in its first three minutes and never really worrying too much about it.
DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (Matt Reeves).
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