Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes
Dr. Will Rodman is experimenting with a drug that he hopes will cure his father's Alzheimer's disease. Unfortunately this same drug will genetically mutate chimpanzees into super intelligent beings that would want to take over Earth.
18 October 1984, Bombay, Maharashtra, India [now Mumbai, Maharashtra, India]
24 August 1980, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
14 April 1980, Palo Alto, California, USA
28 January 1974, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
19 October 1945, Rochester, New York, USA
18 April 1968, Redhill, Surrey, England, UK
11 June 1976, Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
22 January 1956, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
13 September 1979, North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
July 17, 2014
If you're a fan of the series, you'll love it; if you're not a fan it may make you one.
August 30, 2011
Rise of the Planet of the Apes is spectacle with a kick: the transcendence of the normal in creatures so like ourselves is both an entertainment and a needling rebuke to human vanity.
August 06, 2011
A well-crafted B movie with astonishingly effective motion capture CGI technology.
July 10, 2014
Save Christopher Nolan's "Batman," no film so brilliantly reinvigorated a franchise more than this, a thrilling opening act that's equally captivating and leaves you anxiously awaiting the next installment.
March 15, 2017
You can tell me all day that this is great, Avatar-like use of animation. I'll even grant the point. But though I was engaged in the first half of the film, this action section left me looking at my watch.
June 24, 2013
Caesar [the main ape] is the reason to see this daft, breathless picture.
August 22, 2011
The action scenes (particularly a battle between humans and apes on the Golden Gate Bridge) are inventively spectacular, and the story at the movie's core is evocative and engaging.
June 14, 2016
With little dialogue but a world of emotion in his face, eyes and body, [Andy Serkis] not only keeps us on our toes but also has us rooting for the apes to trounce humanity.
February 28, 2013
Overall, Rise of the Planet of the Apes is intermittently entertaining with a few nice nods to the original series.
August 09, 2011
If this film is remembered, it won't be for its storyline, which reverts to cliché a bit too often as it approaches its climax, but for its eye-popping integration of live-action and movie magic. Just as the geniuses...
June 23, 2013
Rise of the Planet of the Apes has some life to it as an action film, but every time anyone opens their mouth, man or beast, you'll feel like someone figured out a way to sneak in groundbreaking CGI into your middle schooler's class play.
August 17, 2011
Distinguishes itself from other ill-conceived reboots in general, and from Tim Burton's disastrous 2001 remake in particular, by looking with fresh, simian eyes at its core conflict between human and primates.
