Rise of the Planet of the Apes
The film becomes the space of nearly two hours simply a matter of special effects with “Rise of the Planet of the Apes”, a prequel to the point technically, but sometimes laughable who sabotages his script with a rich dramatic potential. This is what happens when there are too many people and too little monkeys.
But what happened to the monkeys take over the planet? It tries to explain what this production that returns to its roots, with a scientist (James Franco) who enjoys well-meaning play God, and that his main creation (a chimpanzee with an intelligence greater than the average) decides to take up arms to free themselves.
The radius of popular science fiction movies, the original “Planet of the Apes” which starred Charlton Heston and was taken from the book by Pierre Bouille is stamped with the seal worship. With good reason. It is a feature film extremely entertaining and well thought out on the overthrow of the social classes and the end of humanity. Its success is such that there were several totally unnecessary suites a remake of Tim Burton, and effect of mode, botched an attempt to return to its origins which, ironically, borrows many ideas of “Conquest of the Planet of the Apes”.
“Rise of the Planet of the Apes” is guided by two contradictory ideas. What it should have been and what it is. A few flashes of zipping the first option in the middle of the story, while primates are caught in a diabolical master. If more then one will see primary and prism surface of the situation of Native Americans or more people during the Second World War, but rather an attempt to show the low line between the beasts of man. What distinguishes them is a matter of intelligence and soul. An early reflection that wants to be very interesting. Especially that the story presents, the space of a moment that hairy beings. And they are the ones worth visiting, which guide everything and that should have been much more present. As the introductory section of “2001: A Space Odyssey”, but from beginning to end.
Unfortunately this is not the case. We must explain everything from A to Z to leave no dark area. Issues must be simplified to make them accessible to all and leave morality to the locker room. A Forfeiture predictable as all the human aspects are poorly developed. The characters are neither credible nor endearing, manicheans characters range from the absolute respect for life in the cult of the King Dollar, the dialogues are distressing and situations that emerge are not only totally predictable, but they are involuntarily laugh to tears as they are sometimes bad shape. This is the case the romance totally inoperative between James Franco and daughter of “Slumdog Millionaire” Freida Pinto, maudlin of the relationship with the father played by veteran John Lithgow, and performance difficulty caricature of Tom Felton that can not use the magic of “Harry Potter” to get out of trouble.
The only “actors” that are relevant to see play, which feature a minimum of charisma and emotions are those who lend their faces and voices to the monkeys. And mainly Andy Serkis is a specialty for so many years. He is helped in this regard by the fact that the effort is only to show the common man’s technological advances in terms of special effects. Yes, “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” is often spectacular to watch and the realization of Rupert Wyatt (“The Escapist”) is still very convenient. But there is nothing coming out of this dressing is much closer to a “Congo” as a “King Kong”, except that in context too long, these chimpanzees do not have enough space to argue at fair value, these omnipresent action sequences, few nods to the 1968 version and this open, conducive to a suite. Now that the table is set, it would be nice to properly use its rich raw material instead of simply leaving fallow.
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