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Almost completely devoid of creativity and art. Perplexing directorial and editing decisions all over the place. No arcs of any kind just expositions and boring narration.
But the worst of the worst is that the basic, unimaginative "plot" is constantly interrupted with documentary-like explanations or "fun" history facts. These constant interruptions take you out of any possible suspension of disbelief you might have achieved. And believe me, it'd be a gargantuan achievement in itself. Whoever were involved in this decision should hang their head in shame. This is kindergarten level series production.
Instead of "show, don't tell" they have gone with "tell, tell, tell", expositions over expositions with stale dialog. The viewer is taken for being completely brain dead.
This barely deserves a 1/10, guess it's for the creators showing up for work? Whatever, just don't waste your time with this garbage.
But the worst of the worst is that the basic, unimaginative "plot" is constantly interrupted with documentary-like explanations or "fun" history facts. These constant interruptions take you out of any possible suspension of disbelief you might have achieved. And believe me, it'd be a gargantuan achievement in itself. Whoever were involved in this decision should hang their head in shame. This is kindergarten level series production.
Instead of "show, don't tell" they have gone with "tell, tell, tell", expositions over expositions with stale dialog. The viewer is taken for being completely brain dead.
This barely deserves a 1/10, guess it's for the creators showing up for work? Whatever, just don't waste your time with this garbage.
The movie starts with an immersion break right at the first couple of minutes when an 8th grader delivers a speech and set of ideas which took Schopenhauer and Nietzsche and Marx several decades to get to. Right after that the other kids respond with an equally unbelieveable idea. The movie lost me there at the beginning.
The child actors do not work well, but other flaws of the movie might indicate bad directing.
The pacing is off, many things happen without a care to explain, sometimes the emotions are completely off and baffling. I get it that the movie intends to shock and sometimes it achieves that but it's wholly undeserved and selfish.
Some exciting and thoughtful narratives, questions and answers are left in the dark, not articulated enough or sometimes not at all.
Maybe this is just a story that does not work as a movie.
The child actors do not work well, but other flaws of the movie might indicate bad directing.
The pacing is off, many things happen without a care to explain, sometimes the emotions are completely off and baffling. I get it that the movie intends to shock and sometimes it achieves that but it's wholly undeserved and selfish.
Some exciting and thoughtful narratives, questions and answers are left in the dark, not articulated enough or sometimes not at all.
Maybe this is just a story that does not work as a movie.
It's only saving grace is that it looks good for it's time. Everything else is below avarage. Absolutely boring, especially for an action movie. It has like 15 minutes of action in total. The plot is forced, just as the dialog. Everything is inconsequential, most of all the ending.
It has one touching scene in the last act but that is taken away after a couple of minutes.
But most of all it's dumb and shallow. Skip this borefest. It's essentially the last original Apes movie, Battle for the Planet of the Apes, made with modern technology and a budget.
It has one touching scene in the last act but that is taken away after a couple of minutes.
But most of all it's dumb and shallow. Skip this borefest. It's essentially the last original Apes movie, Battle for the Planet of the Apes, made with modern technology and a budget.