11/23/2023 0 Comments War of planet apes symbol![]() War exemplifies the best of Hollywood visual effects, not in drawing attention to it, but in making it invisible. ![]() That is a compliment not only to the quality of the technology, but to the acting. Not one moment in the entire film did I ever think I was watching CGI. The “humanization” of the apes is smartly captured by having Caesar’s band of assassins end up caring for a little mute human girl who steals your heart with every gesture she makes. The apes who join Caesar are loyal men-whoops-I mean apes of honor. Steven Zahn plays a comic relief chimpanzee who almost upstages Serkis with his lovably selfish personality (I’m telling you, Zahn rivals Serkis’ “good” Gollum paws down). But is it moral relativism to humanize the enemy? Not always. War has ape characters that you can do nothing but root for, which makes you think twice, since they represent the creatures who will ultimately overthrow humanity on earth.Īre our enemies more like us than we would like to admit? Not always. It is a moving and complex portrait of a leader who seeks peace, is pushed to revenge, but discovers mercy when he faces his own hatred. This is a perfectly crafted well told epic that focuses on the personal journey of revenge for the leader of apekind, Caesar, played with understated brilliance by Andy Serkis. In this fourth installment of the Planet of the Apes series we watch the next episode in how earth humans became overcome and enslaved by intelligent speaking apes.
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