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Jul 14, 2017 · War for the Planet of the Apes. “War for the Planet of the Apes” is a film that unapologetically embraces the first word of its title. It opens with soldiers in a lush green forest with nicknames on their helmets, marching toward the enemy through the brush in a style that reminded me of “ Platoon .”. Over the next two hours, other war ...
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Jul 14, 2017 · Advertise With Us. Caesar (Andy Serkis) and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless colonel (Woody Harrelson). After the apes suffer unimaginable losses ...
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Jul 12, 2017 · Directed by Matt Reeves. Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller. PG-13. 2h 20m. By A.O. Scott. July 12, 2017. Leer en español. There is a scene toward the end of “War for the Planet of the ...
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Kids say ( 53 ): Director Matt Reeves follows the excellent Dawn of the Planet of the Apes with this even more complex, darker, smarter sequel, which seems destined to resonate longer than a typical popcorn movie. War for the Planet of the Apes is thrilling, expertly made, and packs an emotional punch, especially thanks to canny motion-capture ...
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By Scott Collura
Updated: Aug 17, 2017 9:26 pm
Posted: Jun 26, 2017 1:00 pm
In one of the more unexpected Hollywood developments in recent years, 20th Century Fox’s dusty old Planet of the Apes series has blossomed once again as a viable big-screen franchise. Even more unexpectedly, with War for the Planet of the Apes it has now turned out to be perhaps the best big-budget trilogy we’ve gotten in some time. To use the parlance of main character Caesar: Apes together strong indeed.
As with its immediate predecessor, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, it’s War’s focus on Caesar and his fellow simians from both a character perspective as well as a technical one that drives the film to greatness. Whereas the performance-captured ape characters of the first two movies (Rise of the Planet of the Apes kicked off the rebooted series in 2011) were groundbreaking, here the work of visual effects powerhouse Weta Digital has finally reached the point where there’s never reason to question the “realness” of the characters onscreen at all. Ape or human, it makes no difference. This world simply exists.
But as recent effects-driven duds prove, none of that matters if the audience doesn’t care about the story and its players. Fortunately, Dawn director Matt Reeves has returned along with Dawn writer Mark Bomback to craft the further adventures of Andy Serkis’ Caesar. Two years have passed since the momentous events that plunged the apes into war with the humans, despite Caesar’s best efforts to avoid it, and now he and his followers have found themselves in a pitched battle with an army led by Woody Harrelson’s character, known only as The Colonel. This figure, with his shaved head, camouflage face paint, and shall we say less-than-Regular Army methods calls back to Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now, although Reeves is self-aware enough to have some fun with such direct parallels; at one point, the camera holds on a patch of graffiti that reads “Ape-ocalypse Now.”
Meanwhile, Reeves fills his widescreen with some remarkable imagery, reaching for an epic feel whether it’s the peaceful sight of apes on horseback riding along a beach or huge scenes of carnage as man battles ape. Michael Giacchino’s score is also memorable, supporting the scope of Reeves’ vision while also imparting on War a slightly off-kilter feel that calls back to the original 1968 film – and supports the notion that the world has turned upside down in these movies.
There is some late second-act drag in War for the Planet of the Apes that slows things down too much, as an extended prison-break sequence eventually feels like it’s treading water. But otherwise the film is frequently gripping, due to either emotional moments or action scenes, and the callbacks to the classic series are also smartly achieved. While the circumstances of a mute human girl’s (Amiah Miller) inability to speak tie into the greater Apes mythos, her nickname is also a charming callback to the 1968 film. Elsewhere, The Colonel’s soldiers call themselves the Alpha Omega (the first and last Greek letters, signifying the beginning and the end), which doesn’t just refer to the particular existential crisis these men are living as they face the potential end of humankind as they know it, but also is a neat reference to 1970’s Beneath the Planet of the Apes. And so on.
War for the Planet of the Apes is an excellent closing act to this rebooted trilogy, but also one that does enough world-building that the series can potentially continue from here – and it’s a rare case where, after three movies, we’re left wanting more. Andy Serkis is once again outstanding as Caesar as he wrestles with the morality of inter-spec...
Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 23, 2022. Don Shanahan Every Movie Has a Lesson. "War for the Planet of Apes" is a full-bodied epic of glory and pain that matches and then exceeds the ...
Jun 26, 2017 · War for the Planet of the Apes review – it's simians v humans in another absorbing episode. This article is more than 6 years old. ... It is a war movie rather notionally, in fact — closer to ...
