Its managed to borrow from the past without seeming burdened by it or beholden to it.
Like Caesar and company, the films seem to be getting more intelligent and human as they evolve.
Its a rollicking old-fashioned warm weather entertainment juiced with the most cutting cutting-edge effects.
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The years in between havent been very peaceful for the apes.
A brutal conflict between man and ape is brewing once againthis time led by Harrelsons mysterious, mad-eyed Colonel.
There are even a few ape traitors helping out the Colonels race war.
So much for ape not kill ape.
across the snowy Sierra mountains.
He calls himself Bad Ape, no doubt after the insults once hurled at him by his human captors.
Beneath the pixels, Steve Zahn injects Bad Ape with sorely needed humor and heartbreaking emotional heft.
Its the ape-iestApesmovie by far.
His Colonel knows that apes like Caesar are no longer controllable and lower on the evolutionary ladder.
If anything, they now have the upper hand.
But hes not going to go down with a hammed-up fight.
When Caesar finally reaches the Colonels fortified mountain compound, he sees his fellow apes in chains as prisoners.
Or are they bait?
Caesar and his team need to break them out in true McQueen/Bronson style.
Im not sure where theApesfranchise goes from here exactly.
Or if it even goes anywhere.
But if this is the series swan song, its going out on top.B+
