Having said that, this is one of those rare films where the story outdoes almost every other aspect of the production. Good thing then because I really doubt James Franco is receiving an Oscar for this film and you can be absolutely sure, neither is Freida Pinto. On that note, I really don’t see what Pinto has contributed to this film except a pretty smile. Yes, there are a few British-American accented words here and there as compared to her non-existent dialogue in Slumdog Millionaire, but that’s about it. On the other hand, Lithgow is heart wrenching as an Alzheimer’s patient and you feel for his character. Tom Felton brings aboard his nasty persona from the Harry Potter franchise and his character gets what he deserves, in what I thought is an inside joke featuring a not-so-magic wand. But as I mentioned earlier, the story is just too captivating for anyone to be even slightly bothered by screen time fillers like Pinto or Felton.Īside from the phenomenal plot, the other accolade is the ground-breaking technology used to animate apes. When Avatar came out, director James Cameron was credited with the use of ground-breaking technology known as “motion capture”. Wyatt raises the bar with acute advancements now known as “performance capture”.
Known for his role as Gholam in Lord of the Rings and Kong in King Kong (2005), Andy Serkis as Caesar is an epitome of a living, breathing, swinging ape and is easily the best moments in the film. It felt as though an ape was trained to act.Īs if the story is not engaging enough, Wyatt’s triumph is the questions he leaves us mulling over. While our greatest strength is our intelligence, are we most vulnerable in our tendency to become complacent? This puts the human race at a disadvantage as we as a species have stopped evolving since we learned to walk upright. Whereas, every other species continue to evolve just to survive. Imagine for a minute, what if the highly agile and comparatively stronger-bodied ape were to slightly improve in intelligence. Would humans still dominate all other species? Or, will we eventually cause our own extinction and in the process allow another species to reign supreme? You know as well as I do what the answers to those questions are.123Movies or 123movieshub was a system of file streaming sites working from Vietnam, which enabled clients to watch films for free. The 123Movies network is still active via clone sites. Where to watch rise of the planet of the apes free#.Where to watch rise of the planet of the apes full#.Where to watch rise of the planet of the apes movie#.