Michael's Movie Grade: B+
Review: It is incredible how misleading this movie's previews were. They made it look like just another bland cliché action movie of the type I am honestly getting a bit tired of. However what we have here is quite different. This is instead an excellent and intense drama with some action scenes.
One of the things that makes this movie work so well is the main character. Cesar is a fascinating and very complex character. Not everything he does is always admirable, but it is always very well relatable and real. This is a character of many different sides and even though you don't always know what he is going to do next, you always believe him doing it. I respect that this movie is not afraid to be things drastically different from the average Hollywood blockbuster. This is shown heavily through the complexity of the Cesar, however that is not the only place it is shown. While there are explosions and big action scenes, there are also plenty of quiet scenes that add so much mood and atmosphere to the film in a way that most summer blockbusters would avoid (because "if they stop making noise for a second the audience will be bored out of their minds" says Hollywood filmmakers). There is also the fact that the movie asks the audience to do some work for themselves such as *gasp* reading subtitles. Adding to all this is how much effort was put into making this world. The world of the film feels so real while watching out, almost like you could reach out and touch it.
The film does have its faults too. Every attempt to add comedy into this movie falls flat, and most of the side characters don't have much in the way of personality (though the little girl is fantastic). One of the side characters (an ape from the zoo) is even kind of annoying. However these are a small price to pay for an excellent movie.
-Michael J. Ruhland
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