Review of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014) by Dirigiblepulp — 20 Aug 2017
An improvement on Rise, that film's sci-fi ambitions a tad undercooked. Here the focus is on psychology. Koba is a great villain, with a strong performance from Toby Kebbell who has some hilarious "playing" dumb-ape scenes that are perfect - until he becomes a simplistic power hungry mad hatter at the end.
He was broken by the world and thought he was helping the apes, then suddenly at the end he becomes simply insane and angry. The other "villain", Gary Oldman, is vastly underwritten - in fact the humans are in general.
This film is less about a rift between humans and apes then it is about Caesar realizing apes aren't just inherently good because they're apes and not humans. I wish the ending were tighter in general and the human dilemma equal to the apes.
This review of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014) was written by Dirigiblepulp on 20 Aug 2017.
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes has generally received very positive reviews.
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