Nominated for Best Visual Effects
Noa (Owen Teague) sets out on a journey of revenge after his tribe is murdered by rival apes. He learns the teachings of Caesar from Raka (Peter Macon), a scholarly orangutan, and grudgingly tolerates a human, Mae (Freya Allen), following him. He learns his tribe has been forcibly assimilated into the kingdom of Proximus (Kevin Durand), who yearns to have unquestioned dominion. The key to this is hidden inside a bunker filled with weapons, locked away during the human wars. Only Mae knows the way in, but she has an agenda of her own.
This movie feels extraneous but it does serve as a decent bridge between the Caesar trilogy and the original series or the 2001 Tim Burton remake, whichever you prefer. Where the Caesar trilogy ends on a hopeful note (for some characters at least), this has a more ominous tone. Which is fine, inevitable, really, I just wasn't in the mood to be brought down.
The effects are good. I don't know that they're great. I feel like it's getting harder now because there's so much CGI in everything. I wouldn't be mad if this won, but I feel like Dune 2 is going to take it.
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