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Rise of the Planet of the Apes

2011

Rupert Wyatt

James Franco, Andy Serkis, Freida Pinto, Brian Cox ...

6.7

73,890

Sci-Fi. Adventure. Action An origin story set in present day San Francisco, where man's own experiments with genetic engineering lead to the development of intelligence in apes and the onset of a war for supremacy. Desperate to help his Alzheimer stricken father (John Lithgow) as well as to find a historic and profitable cure, GenSys scientist Will Rodman (James Franco) is experimenting with his new Alzheimer drug ALZ 112 on a female chimpanzee which looks ... [+]

	Author	Review
Australia	Louise Keller Urbancinefile	"Extraordinary film (...) seamlessly combines live action with visual effects (...) Director Rupert Wyatt pulls everything together beautifully"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"One never knows exactly where the human ends and the effects begin, but Serkis and/or Caesar gives the best performance in the movie (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune	"While it's effects-heavy, the movie itself does not feel heavy. Consider it a fanciful extension of the recent and very fine documentary 'Project Nim'"	POS
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"Smart, fun and thoroughly enjoyable, it's a model summer diversion that entertains without insulting your intelligence"	POS
United States	Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"The movie is zippier than Tim Burton's oddly lifeless 2001 "Planet of the Apes" remake, but unlike good sci-fi, it doesn't signify anything, or really even try to"	NEG

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