Rise of the planet of the apes is another of one of the many remakes of the film e.g. the original 1968 movie etc which came out this year.It starts of with a bunch of hunters in the jungle trying to capture some primates to sell which is sold to some scientists in America.They are brought here for as many scientific research is needed,for animal testing/trials for cures for specific disease e.g. dementia, Alzheimer's etc which as testing on primates are the most similar creatures to humans in terms of the anatomy.
The main protagonist (James Franco) is one of the main workers in the company who's father has Alzheimer's which motivates him to work hard to find this cure.As Will is doing trials on the primates,one of them succeeds in curing the missing and damaged links of the brain which could help many people including his father so in all the excitement he rushes to get some powerful business men to fund the cure.As this meeting is happening at the company in San Fransisco.The successfully cured ape driven crazy what they think is the new drug,in fact is protecting her son ape (Caesar),she smashes her way into the boardroom and causes chaos, before being taken down by stun darts a security guard shoots her with a real gun as she was going to attack the business investors. The experimental programme has no proof of success in their eyes and is closed down. In all the craziness,Will sneaks a baby chimp home (Caesar) and feeds the experimental cure to both the ape and his own dad.
This really is a very enjoyable film with some fun,suspense and feeling of involvement, and Caesar is a great character with the fun ways he acts and expressions that are neither similar to a human but bizarrely convincing as a combination of both – dramatically and comically, if not scientifically.A few years on invigorated by the little kiddie chimp swinging around the house, Caesar is almost a son to Will and a grandson to Charles(Will's Dad) who realizes that he is lonely, and that of course is where the beautiful veterinarian (Caroline) Freida Pinto comes in.
This prequel does not quite have the quality of the original 1968 movie, the topsy-turvy world in which apes rule over human slaves, nor its bold racial satire: a suggestion that having set about brutalising and dehumanising the black peoples, racist whites. But there is something transgressive in the story of Caesar's relentless IQ-march, and a radical political education not attributable to the drugs. Locked away in cages with other apes in the hateful primate centre, Caesar achieves a kind of new Spartacist consciousness. He brings his fellow prisoners together, and then moves in as the alpha-ape.
I personally thought this film was fantastic as in the end the apes fight back against the humans to be free and find their new home which to go through all this and to see how the very last scene shows an ill airplane pilot who was accidentally drugged with the cure actually turned into a disease and leaves us on a suspenseful cliffhanger of something catastrophic happening to the Human race.
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