It’s a wrenching and fateful reunion between Will and Caesar – and a revolution that will forever change the planet and hopefully to more films. All that he’s ever wanted was to go home to the Redwoods that he and Will visited so often when he was a youngster. In a daring break out reminiscent of THE GREAT ESCAPE, Caesar leads his fellow captives out of the prison and into an epic confrontation at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge. ![]() At a throwback moment to the 4th installment, CONQUEST OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (1972), Caesar stands up and retaliates against the human handlers. Caesar soon prevails over the other apes, and establishes a new social order. It’s the psychologically damaged and former circus orangutan named Maurice whom Caesar discovers he can communicate with through sign language. (In Taylor’s own words: “Wiped out by a plague – some natural catastrophe.”)īecause he’s not the physically strongest ape in the facility, Caesar quickly realizes that in order to survive he must assert his intellectual dominance over the fearsome alpha-male ape Rocket “Bright Eyes” and a beastly brooding angry gorilla named Buck. It’s this crucial plot point that sets up the downfall of mankind. Fellow scientist Franklin is accidentally exposed and he is unaware that the new medicine has mutated into a deadly virus to humans but not the apes. In the meantime, Will works on freeing Caesar from this hell hole and an updated version on the drug, ALZ-113, to counteract the reversal of his father’s disease. It is run by Landon (Brian Cox) and his sadistic son, Dodge, (Tom Felton). But unknown to Will, the “sanctuary” is more like a shoddily run prison – a dumping ground for unwanted or abandoned apes. Will takes Caesar to live among other apes within the confines of the San Bruno Primate Sanctuary. ![]() Will’s bending the rules of laboratory trials seems to have worked beyond his hopes, but after a while Charles’s symptoms return with a vengeance and Caesar naturally becomes defensive when seeing his grandfather attacked. At the same time, Charles’ symptoms of Alzheimer’s miraculously go into remission and the family makes frequent field trips to the Redwoods where Caesar is free to roam throughout the forest. Over the years, with the help of the drug, the chimp exhibits incredible cognitive skills and intellect – Will and Caesar communicate through sign language. Inspired by his observation of Caesar’s unexpected gifts, Will secretly grabs enough samples of ALZ-112 from Gen-Sys, and against his better judgment privately continues his research at home, using his father and Caesar as test subjects. Instead of euthanizing the male chimp, Will smuggles him out of the lab. Once home, Charles names the chimp Caesar and leads Will to Caroline (Freida Pinto), a primatologist who’s lovingly dedicated to apes and becomes Caesar’s vet.ĭue to exposure in the womb to the ALZ-112, young Caesar displays intelligence and behaviors unusual for an ape of any age. During all the confusion of the study’s sudden termination, Will and fellow scientist Franklin (Tyler Labine) realize the bizarre actions stemmed from the female trying to protect her newborn infant chimpanzee. The company deems the research a failure and Will is forced by his boss Jacobs (David Oyelowo) to shut down his program. When Will’s simian test subjects suddenly display aggressive behavior, Caesar’s mother is killed after she goes on the attack. Will moves into his father’s house, which was once his childhood home, to take care of him. He is committed to finding a cure for Alzheimer’s, a disease that afflicts his father, Charles (John Lithgow) and it’s that connection between his research and Charles’ illness brings the two together, albeit under difficult heart-rending circumstances. Will Rodman (James Franco) is a focused scientist working within a large pharmaceutical corporation, Gen-Sys, conducting genetic research to develop a benign virus that restores damaged human brain tissue. ![]() She becomes part of the Gen-Sys animal experiments before commencement of human trials for a promising and potentially lucrative new drug called ALZ-112. The story begins with Caesar’s mother being captured in the wild and brought to present day San Francisco. This origin story is a reality-based cautionary tale, an interesting science-fiction-fact mixture and the perfect prequel from director Rupert Wyatt. I’ll say it right up front… RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES is one of the best films of 2011.
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