Rise of the Planet of the Apes Review

It's the end of the world and Apes are taking over! Thats what I thought this movie was supposed to be, but it turned out to be a little more personal and reason driven than that. In this epic tale, you follow a genetically enhanced ape, Caesar, who was the main character more or less through the first movie as he has raised a family and society in the forest with his fellow, super intelligent, apes, and other primate breads. Today's review is about them in the movie "Rise of the Planet of the Apes."

The set up for the story is basically that the human race has been almost completely whipped out bc a virus, and Caesar and the rest of his family even wonder if there are anymore humans left, until a small group of them stumble upon Caesar and his kin. What follows is a heart felt story of trust, betrayal, and ultimately facing our own demons, realizing things are not always as simple as we make them out to be.
I like how they set this up where the humans are basically hanging on for dear life, but still hold to the idea that they are human, they are in charge, and what they say goes. Caesar makes it very clear very quick that that is not true and it causes some friction as you can imagine. Still despite everything, Caesar doesn't want to risk war or destruction to his kind or the humans, so they find a compromise.
The whole story is a fight for survival, but not from weather, starvation, or even war. Its a fight for the very soul. Right and wrong. Finding away to coexist, and sadly showing the true end to such things, or at least how they would more than likely play out.
The way the apes are made and designed in this movie is amazing and very entertaining. I love the fact that they communicate with sign language, even though they can speak actual words. Its like they do it because they feel speaking is a human's way of communicating and they want nothing to do with it. The first time you hear Caesar speak in the film, even though you know he can, is when the human's show up.
I liked the feel to this movie, the post apocalypse that i haven't seen before. Most are desert, and wasteland. Earth destroyed by man and thats how it came about, with this one it was more of nature overrunning the world and destroying man. So its a very flush and green world. Not your normal doomsday.
The movie was open ended so i do wonder if they plan on making a third anytime in the future.
I give this movie a 4 outta 5.