It's only a matter of time that our chimp Caesar figures out he is not like the other children in the neighborhood. Rodman decides the only moral thing to do is to take the baby home while a co-worker tries to find a sanctuary but once Rodman finds out that this little ball of fur has the intelligence of a human child twice it's age he decides to keep and raise the chimp as a child. It turns out that she had just given birth to a beautiful baby chimp who inherited this new "altered" gene. One of the test subjects gets loose in an intense sequence and ultimately put down. Rodman and his team are using chimpanzee's to test this new drug and in the process find out that it increases intelligence as well as repair cells in the brain. James Franco plays Will Rodman, a brilliant scientist with a breakthrough drug that just may cure Alzheimer's. But this film isn't about the humans, it's all about the Simians. Unfortunately, the human actors left a lot to be desired.
"Apes" is a wonder of motion capture, an intelligent heart felt script with great direction. Directed by Rupert Wyatt ("The Escapist") and supported by the unbelievable WETA Digital ("King Kong", "Lord of the Rings", "Avatar") for special effects. "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" is a welcome change to this trend pitting us measly humans against our closest ancestors, Great Apes. Don't get me wrong, I love films about ET's taking over, but Hollywood has beaten that horse to death. We have seen an influx of Alien takeovers recently and it is getting a bit stale I must admit. Disaster movies are a dime a dozen now a days.
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