Rise of the Planet of the Apes had so much going on that it was simply one of the most enjoyable movies in a long time.
This film is similar to the original Planet of the Apes from 1969 but has a little different story line.
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) takes place in the San Francisco Bay area in California. Will Rodman (James Franco) is a scientist that works for Gen-Sys, which is a pharmaceutical company, and is trying to find a cure for the deadly disease of Alzheimer. The previous five years Will has been testing a drug on Chimpanzees and it has great promise until the day that it is supposed to be shown to investors and something goes wrong.
Will's father Charles (John Lithgow) has a terminal case of Alzheimer's and Will takes the experimental drug home and gives it to his father after seeing how well it worked with his Chimps. A baby Chimpanzee of one of the tested Chimps, Caesar (Andy Serkis) is born with the drug already in his blood stream and it has an effect that nobody could imagine which makes him smarter than the average Chimpanzee. Caesar evolves throughout the movie and great things happen to him and his fellow primates.
I am not much of a Science Fiction fan but this movie blew me away. The acting, story line and special effects made this one of the better movies of its kind that I have seen in awhile! I would give this movie 8 out of 10 stars. The movie has things that are somewhat hard to believe but then again it is a Science Fiction film.
I hope this substitute review for Jeff's Blog lives up to Jeff's usual Blogs!
Kevin
The special effects are some of the better that I have seen in awhile. The apes look fairly human because they are human faces that are digitally altered into ape faces. In addition the usual Hollywood explosions and movie tricks are thrown into the movie but the ones mentioned previously were the best.
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