9/10
After watching the movie at UA cine moko, I was completely stunned for a moment. This is a good movie in the absolute sense, and it is also a movie that will not please the audience in the absolute sense. The box office is not high. Fox smashed a full $150 million , At present, at most, it is enough to make a return, and the box office curve is collapsing. As for the Chinese box office, I'm not optimistic.
The story of the film basically revolves around Caesar (Andy Serkis) revenge on the human armed leader Colonel (Woody Harrelson), and the tone of the whole film is extremely dark, full of killing, betrayal, slavery and Oppression, the overall texture is like an anti-ruling class movement. The ape family headed by Caesar yearned for peaceful coexistence, and the two did not interfere with each other. In the eyes of humans, the orangutans were to be driven out and killed.
But what is gratifying is that the picture of the film is bright, which is different from the gray tones of the dawn film. Although the rhythm of the film is slow, it will not have the feeling of bottomless darkness when watching Blade Runner, which can alleviate the slow rhythm in the first half to a certain extent.
The film shows Matt Rivers' determination not to bow to business. As a blockbuster, the whole movie has almost no laughs, it won't be the type of gasp where you laugh while eating popcorn, but that doesn't mean there's no place for you to enjoy the movie, but in fact There are a lot of places that I find really cool, there are Shakespeare, the Bible, the metaphors of human rights and slavery. A lot of on-camera language replaces words to drive the plot, I only see one scene where the confrontation between Caesar and the Colonel serves to drive the drama of the plot, I don't notice anywhere else (hardly any language in fact, except for Caesar Only one gorilla can talk, and that gorilla has a vocabulary of 200 words), but including that confrontation, the entire film's progression seems so natural that it doesn't feel blunt.
In terms of shooting techniques, this film is very classical. Recently, many classic films from the 1950s and 1970s that I have watched have found their shadows in the battle for the Planet of the Apes. Among them, there is a very obvious tribute to Kubrick's "The Battle for the Planet of the Apes" Road to Glory and Coppola's Apocalypse Now. Also, the approach to the soundtrack is very old-school, and in places of conflict, there's always some 70s thriller-esque soundtrack (which I personally don't like). There are also a lot of slow-motion close-ups, which are also very tense. Except for the final WAR, the films are all in pursuit of a concise style, the plot will not appear redundant, and the editing will not be very complicated. It needs to be carefully experienced until the end. At this point, the trilogy RISE DAWN WAR has come to an end. . A good trilogy allows for the back-and-forth to echo each other, and apparently, Matt Rivers did, bringing the series to an epic end.
I'd also love to talk about the starring of the movie. Instead of talking about Andy Serkis, it's better to say that all the stuntmen have played very well, and CG technology can be said to have reached its peak. But it is undeniable that the portrayal of Caesar's character is so outstanding. We have seen the changes in Caesar's mentality on the way to seek revenge. There are many nightmares that can wake him up, all of which have made Caesar's human nature. . Caesar's experience is the richest among orangutans, and this makes Caesar the most contradictory individual among apes. Andy Serkis also made a perfect transition from simply shooting non-human characters through motion capture technology to letting non-human characters show the brilliance of their humanity. Following the perspective of Caesar, we have experienced the growth process of the ape, which corresponds to the colonel, and it represents more of the self-indulgent degeneration and destruction of human nature. People are a complex product, and Woody Harrelson's Colonel is such a person, he knows the heavy responsibility he has, and he happens to be a dictator, which also makes him do quite difficult. choices, and those decisions set the stage for a dramatic twist at the end.
All in all, Battle for the Planet of the Apes is a movie full of wisdom, and at the same time invites audiences to reflect on morals. There is no shortage of exquisite scenes and outstanding fight scenes, I haven't seen such a good movie in a long time. That's why I give this movie a high 9.
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