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Plot was just missing everything, no character development, you have no backstory or connection with any character but then the movie would drag out every scene as if we were supposed to be at the edge of our seat every second, except I wasn't. The bad character development and over dramatic scene making creates the perfect movie to fall asleep in, you will start feeling bored and exhausted after only 20 minutes and since it is a long movie you will either feel this way the whole movie like I did or you will be lucky enough to watch this pile of garbage on the plane where you can wake up and the movie will be over. The only reason I gave it a score of 2 is because there has to be at least one movie out there that is worse than this one. It started bad, had a bad plot, had no drama, no character development, had horrible attempts at tension, horrible solutions to problems, it all ends exactly as your 8 year old would have predicted, maybe the Producers preschooler wrote the plot. Yes it was that bad. Humans and apes? battle for the planet? I wish, except it wasn't, it was just pathetic.

Oh and the worst part is the embarrassingly high reviews for this stinker. Too bad the Internet has become overrun with armies of paid shills, This movie, were it to be honestly rated by people that actually have seen it, would likely be less than 2 because I gave it a two out of pity.

Clearly, when a movie is this terrible, yet gets such stellar reviews from IMDb users and metacritics alike, something fishy is going on. Actually, something apey is going on. I suspect we are all victims of a gorilla marketing campaign.

Ha ha. Get it? A guerilla marketing...meh, never mind. The important thing is yes, this movie really is that bad. By now we are all used to the fake reviews on IMDb that accompany any movie on its opening weekend. But what is up with these inflated metacritic scores?

I LOVED the first installment in this franchise. I loved the screenplay, the acting, and the gritty realism. But this? Total childish schlock. If I had to choose one and only one adjective, it would be maudlin.

I would have walked out of this movie if I didn't bring four kids with me. Within the first ten minutes, the magnitude of your error in wasting your money will become apparent. This movie is BAD. Avoid!

My review is based on my expectations that was set by POTA I and II. POTA III has a tremendous hype created by its predecessors and would not have stood on it own merits. Its cashing in on the success created by POTA I and II

Pros: Good acting, Great graphics and sound

Cons: Too much melodrama, Screenplay is lengthy, Facial closeups too many

I personally struggled to stay motivated with this one. Whilst we should applaud the magician worthy skills of the CGI technicians, I found myself emotionally disconnected from the story and my eyes where craving that other 75 percent of the colour wheel by the end.

Structurally I think it is always a rocky choice to put a fight scene at the very start of the film as even in the case of sequels we are not as emotionally invested in the outcome of the characters and you loose the important fight scene tension. I needed the person beside me to check my pulse for how little I felt for the opening battle. If we had seen some touching exchange between ape families with some heartfelt music I may have felt more about the outcome of the opening 15 minutes.

Planet of the apes doesn't offer much in the way of relief from the dreary colours, angst and rain. The film doesn't have much of a sense of humour about it other then the token laugh an hour character 'bad ape' who was charming but not enough to save the film for me. I don't want to let it go by unmentioned though that I think Andy Serkis is Devine and endlessly watchable. I think that the sincerity within Caesars portrayal was mesmerising. It was almost a well crafted duet between Serkis and the breath taking capabilities of modern CGI.

Unfortunately I'm gonna have to return to the small matter of me not enjoying the film. Another point I have to made is that I felt that the moments of tenderness where at times a little contrived. The film needed more poetry as a whole but the few attempts at a heartfelt scene for me where a little tenuous I don't wanna include spoilers but you might agree that the 'sad' scene with the 'reprised blossom behind the ear' didn't quite have the right foundation for actual poignancy.

Right at the start of the film a drunk man arrived late and made his way to his front row seat across the front of the auditorium with his bottle of water held high in a victorious manner (perhaps he sneaked in) he continued to walk with vigour until he collided with the wall opposite. I know that the people I watched Planet of the Apes with also weren't particularly taken with the film because when we filed out the cinema the drunk man was the first and only thing my friends wanted to talk about.

I feel compelled to write a review because of the rating this movie has on IMDb.

I'll just jump into it. This movie is way too long, it's extremely boring, it has no story, no ending, and the whole thing is painfully bad.

After 20 minutes I started scratching my eyes. 60 minutes into the movie and still nothing. Some quarrels here and there, inexplicable conflict and the whole thing ends with a predictable horseshit.

I had a really unpleasant experience. Save your money and watch something else. Or buy a few drinks with your friends. Cheers!

This film was 2 hours 20 minutes. The middle 2 hours and 10 minutes were very boring. The interesting things (for me) was having Cornelious and Nova as those two, in grown up version are in the Charlton Heston movies. I also liked the music which can be described as ape drums. However overall this is just a boring film.

I entered the theatre with a relatively open mind. I had recently seen 'Get Out' after my reluctance in being entertained by more leftist social justice propaganda had somewhat subsided. And I was incredibly surprised. I loved the film! Yes, there were heavy nods to the oppression of people of colour but it was done intelligently and from a somewhat unique angle. Plus, the film was well written, well acted and paced perfectly.

So despite the trailer for 'War for the Planet of the Apes' looking like a grotesquely obvious allegory for the upcoming race-war, I figured I might be wrong. I hated the prospect of Jordan Peele's 'Get Out' and the film quickly became a favourite of 2017 for me.

It turns out I was right all along. The film stinks of social justice and white privilege. The overwhelmingly white human race are portrayed as a wholly irredeemable group of oppressive savages. Meanwhile the Apes are the oppressed. The unfairly vilified. The misunderstood. The empathetic and admirable. The unsubtle links to today's cultural environment wouldn't have been any more obvious if scene's were dressed in 'Ape Lives Matter' banners or Antifa masks.

As far as the film itself, it's about the least layered piece I may ever have seen. There's no subtext, no intelligent subplots. Apes are good, (white) humans are bad. I really can't expand any further on this storytelling mechanic. It is what it is, albeit with lots of CGI.

I've ran out of energy to finish reviewing this disappointment. Why the IMDb rating is so high can only reflect either a declining level of acceptable standards or the production company purchasing IMDb accounts. I have seen far more poor reviews than positive and cannot accept people interested in good film would be so complimentary of this huge pile of visual faeces.

2/10

The best of the New trilogy was 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)' which I give 8.5 and I saw it a few times with pleasure. The second one: 'Dawn of the Planet... (2014)' was awful 1.0, as most of the remakes are. They put you in front of a 'fait accompli' when it would have been interesting to 'see' how the apes got in control of the earth (not only the hint about the ape flu). The last one, 'War for the Planet of the Apes (2017' is film in a wardrobe. It contains some elements that should have been develop in the second film. The 'teaser' misleads you about the action, in fact it's a long boring film, with 'cheap close up scenes' that you will have to endure. I give it a 2.0

This movie is visually great! Top notch CGI, Too bad that's where the good ends.

The plot is garbage, and has completely taken the wind out of the sails. This is supposed to be the WAR FOR THE ENTIRE PLANET, and the entire plot is revolving around a small rogue faction.

90% of the scenes are all based on "oh look at the clever monkey".

This movie was a complete letdown for me, and it has none of the power the others have had. It doesn't inspire any deeper thoughts, or metaphorical plots aside from the blatant surface forced plot line.

It only gets 2 stars because of the CGI.

This just screamed money grab!

This is a glorified Michael Bay movie...

This movie reminds me of really bad fantasy B-movies from the 80s and 90s – you know when the mere fact that the movie had fantastical elements made you watch it no matter how bad it was? Those movies had paper thin plots with a lot of moronic plot holes, badly written dialog and almost no action because that was expensive to shoot. They had some limited special effects, were shot in the wilderness with a limited cast and one or two scenes with a lot of extras that they splashed most of their cash on. Everything about this movie is like that except off course it's not cheap and the effects are superb. Odd that it turned out this way since the other two movies in the series are legitimately good. I could have enjoyed this for what it was it if had any business being this bad, but it really hasn't. And besides: fantasy and sci-fi movies are made a lot more frequently and at a much better quality today. We can afford to be a bit more picky than we were 20 years ago.

As others have said: One of the most boring hence worst movies I've ever seen. I was contemplating leaving the cinema, starting after half an hour in. Totally disappointing. I liked parts 1 and 2, this part however I wouldn't watch again, even for free.

What really made parts 1 and 2 interesting for me was seeing the backstory of "How the (original) Planet of the Apes came to be", expecting this movie to deliver the epic conclusion and, as the title suggested, the "War for the Planet of the Apes": Apes and humans struggling for supremacy over the planet. Well, it didn't deliver any of this.

Instead, the movie started as a road movie (i.e. walking movie), mixed with an "arch-nemesis revenge" story and concluded as a very cumbersome "prison escape" story.

They could have replaced all the apes with zombies / aliens / whatever, it wouldn't have had any influence story-wise. This is not a Planet of the Apes movie. It's the poorly told story of some people going after other people, and some of these people happen to be apes.

Extra points deduction for: Inconvincing arch-nemesis; Waste of great character potential; Awkward sidekicks; Especially stupid, cheesy finale.

Extra plus points for CGI / motion capturing fulfilling the expected standards.

It was like the 1st and 2nd was building up to something great just to get to the 3rd movie and have it feel like the 1st all over again. Very slow moving and a tiny bit of action. And this is my first time reviewing. They want me to write 5 lines about this piece of crap movie that isn't worth 1 line!

Simply and minimalist. Boring. 45 minutes of film would have been more than enough.

Nothing to do with the original movies, men are now the bad guys and "humans deserve what happens to them in this movie", so don't try to defend yourself. The EEUU flag and anthem as a oppression symbol, plus religion (christian) is bad too. Another lefty movie to make a bad influence in citizens minds.

Halfway through this movie and I'm ready to shut off the DVD player. It's that bad! Hard to believe this is the same genre/trilogy. The apes' dialog is all over the place, sometimes they talk like college professors now. This movie does not hold a candle to the last two, don't waste your time.