Can Andy Serkis get all the acting awards in the world for his job here as the ape named Caesar already? He truly is amazing in the role, and I feel like this movie features his best work yet in this franchise. There is a lot of complex emotions that Caesar is suppose to be able to show us in this film, and Serkis does great work showing all of it. Speaking of emotions, it should be even harder not to get emotionally involved with his character in this installment, which in itself is an achievement that needs to be lauded.
Caesar himself may be one of the main highlights to watching this movie, and Woody Harrelson's character is as well, but if you've seen the past two movies, then the continuing story is the other main reason to seeing this. Between "Rise...," "Dawn...," or "War...," I would say "War Of The Planet Of The Apes" is arguably the most ambitious movie yet. Part of the reason why I say that is that although it says "War" on the title, I wouldn't really classify this as a war movie. There are battle sequences in this, but the majority of the movie isn't like that at all. That fact may disappoint some people, but what we ended up getting instead is something special.
This is a beautifully directed movie by Matt Reeves, and emotionally artistic with the personal feeling tone, the deliberately careful pacing, as well as with how much it also felt like a silent film at times. There's a lot of dramatic weight to the story, and there's quite a bit of seriousness to the whole proceedings that only raises the emotional impact to certain scenes. Some of those certain scenes were definitely very powerful and moving, providing some of the best moments of the movie. It's not all dour though, as there are bits of comic relief involving Steve Zahn's ape character.
While in many cases this movie can be called a masterpiece in film making, it's not without it's flaws though. Arguably minor flaws, like plot conveniences, or how the pacing might be too slow for some movie goers. I would say the positives really does outweigh the negatives in this case, and only cements the fact that this truly is one of the best trilogy of films around.
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