Review of War for the Planet of the Apes (2017) by Tristan M — 26 Jul 2017

The success of the first 2 films is followed upon well by this film from the get go, the opening scene is intense and well done, action packed with great CGI and effects. But the more the film moves on, the more it loses all it's built up to be.

The story is still interesting and important, the revenge by Caesar is much like that if Koba in Dawn, but now it's apparently ok. The plot and story are good and interesting until about half way through.

The reveal that there's a virus that makes humans lose their voice and (become beasts) is not the way I was hoping the rest of the humans would be eliminated by, and seems out of place and unneeded.

The Colonel is a great character and has a good story and Woody Harrelson is a great actor, but he is unfortunate let down by limited screen time and never doing anything all that badass, besides killing Caesars son and wife that is, and dies to the virus.

. what a way for the big bad villain to go. The soldiers are all blind as bats, they don't notice the cages empty as the apes escape, or the apes escaping all around them for that matter. Then the whole complex magical explodes after one gas tank does, which causes and avalanche that conveniently kills the rest of the attacking human army, who huddle in the bottom of the draw.

Caesar then survives this avalanche by clinging to a tree that stays standing. What? I feel that most of the credibility of the series has been more or less ruined at this point, and if that's not enough, Caesar survives the whole trek to the new home location and seems fine only to lay down an die when he gets there.

He couldn't even die a real death either, or during the massively long journey, no they skip all that so he can get there, say some inspiring words and die. The end of this movie ruined it in many ways, I wish they had done this film in a completely different way starting when they got captured, as that seemed to be the centre of all the issues.

Seems like far less of a war than even Dawn was, and the action at the end and beginning is nothing compare to the middle where seemingly nothing exciting happens, apes just walk through the snow or get whipped in prison, the most war like scenes are the short action sequences in the beginning, which last at most 15 mins.

The little ape they find whose basically a comedian seems very forced as well and only there to add some cheer somehow, when in reality its kinda stupid doesn't really belong. Anyways, ok film, second one was far better, will see how they revolver from this as we were already promised more films.

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