Review of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014) by Joe Morgenstern for Wall Street Journal — 09 Jul 2014
The film forges ahead, in vivid 3-D, with such energy, expertise and thunderous conviction that you readily accept its basic premise — the pell-mell emergence of great intelligence, plus moral awareness, in primitive bodies — and find yourself exactly where the filmmakers want you to be, swinging giddily between sympathy for the apes and the humans in what threatens to become all-out war.
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This review of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014) was written by Joe Morgenstern and published by Wall Street Journal on 09 Jul 2014.
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes has generally received very positive reviews.
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