Here Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and starts his own mythic quest to avenge his kind that is being submitted in slavery and apartheid. Along the way the apes suffer unimaginable losses and Caesar (Andy Serkis), a Chimpanzee raised like a child by the drug's creator (first outing with Will Rodman: James Franco).

As Caesar and his apes : gorilla, chimpanzee and orangutan, are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colonel. There concerns Caesar (masterfullly incarnated by Andy Serkis, Gollum alter-ego), a chimpanzee who gained human-like intelligence and emotions from an experimental drug that rose to a super-intelligent chimp who leads an ape upheaval. An acceptable Ape movie with huge production design in which the performers are very fine, and special mention for Andy Serkis who provides the sturdy central pivot the tale surely needs. The picture delivers enough energy and turns out to be an impressive flick full of fighting, action, battles and suspense.

This War of the Planet of Apes is an intense and exciting film with great visual effects by means of Motion Capture technology.

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