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#2. War of the Planet of the Apes (2017)
Inviso- 1
KBM- 1
Johnbobb- 2
Scarlet- 2
Karo- 3
Stifled- 4
Wickle- 4
JONA- 5

"As a whole, I think the reboot trilogy was extremely good. I like the fact that the entire story is a complete narrative of the rise and eventual fall of Caesar. Anchoring the trilogy to that central character (done an extreme amount of justice by Andy Serkis) really did wonders for taking a campy, goofy movie from the late 60s and early 70s, and turning it into a genuinely quality film. War is the most ape-centric of the trilogy, and more than anything, this is all about Caesar the whole way through, without any subplots to bog down the story. And its an interesting concept. The apes are at war with the humans after the events of Dawn, and it gets so bad that Caesar needs to move his people to a new homeonly for his wife and son to get murdered by Woody Harrelson. From that point on, its pure rage on his part, going on a complete revenge mission right up until he gets captured at the halfway point of the movie, and everything changes.

Suddenly, we see the apes in a submissive position for the first time since early on in Rise, and theyre imprisoned and forced into slave labor for the humans. It turns out that the mutation that we know turned all humans mute in the original film first begins in War. And Harrelsons soldiers are under attack from their fellow humans because Harrelson decided to start executing anyone that turned mute, if only to stave off infection. So youve got war between apes and humans, war between humans and humans, and even some ape on ape conflict as Koba loyalists join the humans when it becomes clear that Caesar wont protect them. And all of this leads to a climactic battle where the apes escape captivity right as the good humans attack Harrelsons compound. Caesar gets mortally wounded, but he at least manages to lead his people to freedom, and its a solid ending to his character arc. His death allows him to transcend into legend. And its a solid end to the reboot franchise (though they could certainly continue on from here.)" ~Inviso

"War for the Planet of the Apes is a tremendously ambitious, powerful film that actually turned out to be one of my top 10 movies of 2017. Surprisingly subtle and introspective for a movie with the word war in the title, this borrows a lot of good ideas from previous films in the franchise and just does them all better. Andy Serkis continues to give a brilliant physical performance behind the mo-cap, and the fact that the apes greatly outnumber the humans in this movie works to its great advantage. Koba was a great character, so even if it's just in hallucinations it's nice to see Toby Kebbell make a return here. There are deaths in this movie that are genuinely devastating. The ending is cathartic and beautiful. By the end of this, I felt I'd been on an emotional journey comparable to one of the Lord of the Rings films. On the whole, this is not one of my favorite sci-fi series, as most of the time the Apes movies comes across too obvious with their message and themes but this one strikes just the right balance between the allegory and the premise. Time will tell, but in my eyes should go down in history as the one that managed to be just as good as, if not even better than, the original." ~KBM

"Man this is a nice way to end the trilogy. Andy Serkis honestly deserves an Oscar for his performance as Caesar through the entire series, but here especially. The film carries itself as an epic, going longer than any other film in the series but remaining engrossing the entire way through. Some humor, some tragedy, a lot of action and a surprising amount of moral uneasiness. Woody Harrelson makes the best human villain of the series (not that that's a particularly high bar), being scary and crazy and just the tiniest bit sympathetic." ~Johnbobb
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