had some cool action scenes but it was a pretty dumb movie (I kind of expected that, I was just hoping it wouldn't have so many characters that went nowhere or existed purely as a device) and about a half hour too long.


I think the movie is perfectly summarized by Gary Oldman's character activating that C4 in the subways in order to bring down the tower and kill all the apes, only for the tower to A) remain standing and B) very few of the apes to die. On the surface a whole bunch of shit was supposedly happening, but in the end it was mostly just bombast.


I also remained confused for the duration of the film as to how the apes hadn't come across humans in seven or eight years or whatever Maurice said and yet they were still in San Francisco burning gasoline and eating wheat bread the whole time.


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