I wanted more monkeys doing their Doomguy on horses, less humans trying to be clever.

but yea, the first moment I had a little pause was when Gun Dummy told Malcolm "they're just apes, man!" You'd figure everyone in the world at this point knew about the smart apes led by the one who screamed NOOOOOO in the lab that one time (though I guess those guards died, but James Franco would've mentioned that monkey spoke to him in the forest, right?).

Actually, I'm kind of curious what happened to Franco. He caught the virus and died, went into hiding?

One thing I will say I appreciated was Koba as a villain. The CEO in charge of the testing facility in the first movie was so beyond action movie dumb I almost wanted to call Rise an action comedy rather than a drama. Koba was a very good villain, and I honestly didn't see him actually pulling the trigger coming. I figured he was just going to try and destroy the armory or bring them back to try and teach the apes how to use them. I didn't expect the apes to just master guns instantly.

The more I think about it, these movies were probably on par with each other. This one was more dumb fun, I was a little more interested in Ceaser learning and escaping the monkey jail.

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