Written by James M. Tate / 7/18/2017 / No comments / 2017 , action , franchise , planet of the apes , sequel , woody harrelson
BELATED REVIEW OF WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES
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Have These Apes Reached Their Long Goodbye? YEAR: 2017 |
And now, as far as money goes, sky's the limit, and WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES, while looking terrific with tons of special effects, has hardly anything to do with the title wherein BATTLE FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES simply lacked the necessary ingredients for it to matter...
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WARScore: ** |
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Pretty bad, but it had a story |
By the time the two enemies face off, our hero ape, Caesar, had spent a long and pointless rudimentary hour searching the flatlands for clues to where the bad Colonel's fortress is (Colonel Kurtz, get it?), only to be thrown in a cage where the actor behind the CGI, Andy Serkis, wears the same old angry-for-vengeance expression, only this time bathed in searing and repetitive melodrama befitting a misleading epic score: like RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES and unlike the best of the three, DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES, this is a two-hour movie that, while sporadically nice to look at and loaded with some cool last-minute action and explosions, could have been replaced by a simple narration introducing an actual story that has a beginning, middle, and the only thing this WAR is about — a long, dragged out end.
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