No
It is the stunning, startling No that will be heard by moviegoers around the world this weekend and rake in hundreds of millions of dollars at the box office.
And deservedly so.
For never has a No carried so much weight.
Particularly for the human race.
After all, Caesar has said No!
Fine Entertainer
Folks, Rise of the Planet of Apes, ably directed by Rupert Wyatt based on the story by Amanda Silver and Rick Jaffa, is a fine movie that had moviegoers at a theater in the mid-Atlantic region lapping it all up.
It was one of those rare occasions where we heard claps at the end of the movie. No kidding, guys.
Well written, well-executed and well-acted, Rise of the Planet of the Apes is a science fiction movie set in present-day San Francisco.
Working at the intersection of humans and chimps, the movie offers an engrossing account of how scientific research into a cure for Alzheimer’s disease triggers unintended consequences that ultimately proves catastrophic to the human race.
James Franco plays Will Rodman, a researcher racing against the clock to find a cure to for Alzheimer’s.
Will’s anxiety and feverish rush to get results is understandable since his father has the dreaded disease that’s slowly robbing him of his mind.
As with a lot of scientific research involving new drugs, Will’s work too involves testing them on primates. But when a chimp escapes from its cage and runs amok, Will’s research project is shut down and all the chimps ordered to be destroyed.
One chimp has just given birth and the lab attendant is reluctant to kill the baby chimp.
So Will takes it home to his father’s delight, names it Caesar, and then he uses the same experimental drug on his father. Voila, the old man starts feeling better, a lot better.
But then Caesar is growing. And he’s no slouch in the head either.
Au contraire, our adorable Caesar, he with the memorable, expressive eyes, has inherited his late mother’s intelligence.
In one touching scene, the alert Caesar helps Will’s father get his eating fork into the right position. Continue reading »
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