Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Review (May contain Major Spoilers)

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes The Pros and the Cons Warning may contain some Spoilers of the plot.  

THE PROS 

1. The Emotional Depth

The emotional characters in the Dawn of the Planet of the Apes has to be the best I've seen in a blockbuster for a long time. The characters from both sides either if is the Humans or the Apes have interesting perspectives of  how they view their divided side. I like there wasn't just a wrong side or a blatantly evil side. Characters such as Cesear, Koba and Drefyus didn't felt one dimensional they all felt that they have grey areas within their reasoning's as of why they don't trust either side. Cesar a character from the first film has now developed into more of a leader and a caring father as for Koba, Koba is now developed into more of a torture soul that has desire to reek havoc against all of the human race. And Malcolm a grey area between the humans and the apes made Cesar to believe once again that all humans weren't all devils. Malcolm made Cesar to believe once again  humans can be trusted same as trusting an fellow ape.  

2. Andy Skiers's Performance 

Will somebody give this actor a award or some kind of recognition??? Forget his portrayal of him being a CGI character he played one of the best characters on screen that I have seen for ages. Andy Skiers brought life to Cesar regardless that Cesar is  fictional. Any Skiers worked really hard to bring life, emotion and visual strength out of a CGI character which I believe is really hard to do for most actors. Any Skiers's talent of acting made me believe and to be emotionally invested throughout Cesar's motivations and dilemmas as the film progressed.  

3. The Overall Visual Effects

In many scenes you can hardly tell that the visual effects were hardly noticeably or unnoticeable. The Visual effects or so impressive that you can see the realistic designs on the monkey's bodies and seeing the sweat and the wetness within each of their hair. The clearness of the visual effects made me almost believed I was seeing real life apes. The emotional expressions on almost every last ape was realistic and truly believable. But beside the apes the ruin world itself is also something to behold as well. With a world without electricity you can see vegetation grown on abandon buildings, cars, roads, houses etc. It felt like was watching the world of Last of Us a videogame that shares the same comparison to same world within this film. A world where many cities are ruin and forsaken but the nature itself is really beautiful to look at once more.  

THE CONS! 

1. The Underused Characters 

Characters beside Cesar, Malcolm and Koba I felt were tad bit underused or not that fleshed out enough. Ellie beside that she was the doctor I thought she just played just the soft love interest for the lead male character. I wish Ellie was more of a stronger character among some of the lead actors. I thought some of the background humans were boring and unforgettable as well. Many of the humans in the movie to me were just there to just progress the story to move forward but failed to actually care about all of them.  

However the underused character topic as to be my only gripe about this film which doesn't effect how emotional driven and beautifully shot this movie is.

OVERALL VERDICT 

9/10 

This movie is truly amazing blockbuster that blends with both mindless entertainment and also having a well thought narrative. So what you waiting for if you already saw it the first time go out see it second time!

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THE CAST OF CHARACTERS

	Andy Serkis	...	Caesar
	Jason Clarke	...	Malcolm
	Gary Oldman	...	Dreyfus
	Keri Russell	...	Ellie
	Toby Kebbell	...	Koba
	Kodi Smit-McPhee	...	Alexander
	Kirk Acevedo	...	Carver
	Nick Thurston	...	Blue Eyes
	Terry Notary	...	Rocket
	Karin Konoval	...	Maurice
	Judy Greer	...	Cornelia
	Jon Eyez	...	Foster
	Enrique Murciano	...	Kemp
	Larramie Doc Shaw	...	Ash (as Doc Shaw)
	Lee Ross	...	Grey