Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (Blu-ray) PG-13
One last chance for peace.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 2 hours, 10 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: December 2, 2014
- Originally Released: 2014
- Label: 20Th Century Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jason Clarke, Andy Serkis, Gary Oldman, Keri Russell, Toby Kebbell & Kodi Smit-McPhee | |
Performer: | Kirk Acevedo & Judy Greer | |
Directed by | Matt Reeves | |
Edited by | William Hoy & Stan Salfas | |
Screenwriting by | Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver & Mark Bomback | |
Composition by | Michael Giacchino | |
Director of Photography: | Michael Seresin |
Entertainment Reviews:
The film’s plentiful action is thrilling at times...and the cinematography has a dark and dramatic intensity.
Washington Post
The one truly great performance belongs to Andy Serkis, whose Caesar is his most soulful motion-capture creation yet. -- Grade: B+
Entertainment Weekly
4 stars out of 5 -- [P]owered by the simmering, expertly sustained tension both between and within the two species.
Total Film
Dawn is not interested in staging conflict for the sake of it, and the misunderstandings and tensions that drive the plot don't always feel like contrivances.
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AV Club
Rating: 9/10 --
Though it juggles multiple characters struggling with inner conflicts inside of a larger external conflict, the film never feels unstable, confusing, or lopsided.
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Way Too Indie
3.5 stars out of 4 -- An exciting and engrossing blockbuster with weighty themes, it raises important moral questions as it keeps viewers riveted.
USA Today
Every drop of rain and luxuriant display of post-apocalyptic decay oozes a sort of tragic elegance that’s a stark contrast to the well-lit labs of the previous film…
Film Comment
Product Description:
A war begins to brew between man and ape in this sequel to the 2011 hit RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES. It's been ten years since the Simian Flu wiped out most of humanity, and somewhere deep in the woods outside of San Francisco, Caesar (voice and performance capture by Andy Serkis) and his primate companions have established a thriving village built on the principles of peace and community. Shortly after welcoming a baby brother into the family, Caesar's son Blue Eyes (Nick Thurston) is walking through the forest with his friend Ash (Doc Shaw) when they cross paths with a human named Carver (Kirk Acevedo), who impulsively draws his gun and shoots Ash at the first sign of aggression. As it turns out, Carver is part of a human expedition led by Malcolm (Jason Clarke), who, along with the rest of his crew, races to Carver's side just as Caesar and the rest of the apes answer Blue Eyes' desperate call for help. An enraged Caesar drives the humans away after realizing they are no longer a threat, and decides to dispatch a small crew to follow them rather than yield to the pleas of his aggressive advisor Koba (Toby Kebbell) to launch an all-out attack. Instead, he decides to show the apes' strength by amassing outside of the humans' makeshift community at the base of an unfinished tower, making it unmistakably clear that the two species should remain apart.
Meanwhile, the point of the human excursion was to get a dormant dam running again in order to power their community, which will soon be thrust into darkness should they fail to take action. Convinced that he could strike a truce with Caesar that would allow the humans to repair the dam, which is located on the apes' land, Malcolm gets permission from human leader Dreyfus (Gary Oldman) to set out on his mission. Incredibly, thanks to the help of his girlfriend Ellie (Keri Russell), his son Alexander (Kodi Smit-McPhee), and a few other key allies, Malcolm succeeds. Still, his truce with the apes is a fragile one, and just when it seems that the primates and humans have learned to coexist in peace, a shocking act of betrayal threatens to spark a war that will determine the dominant species.
Meanwhile, the point of the human excursion was to get a dormant dam running again in order to power their community, which will soon be thrust into darkness should they fail to take action. Convinced that he could strike a truce with Caesar that would allow the humans to repair the dam, which is located on the apes' land, Malcolm gets permission from human leader Dreyfus (Gary Oldman) to set out on his mission. Incredibly, thanks to the help of his girlfriend Ellie (Keri Russell), his son Alexander (Kodi Smit-McPhee), and a few other key allies, Malcolm succeeds. Still, his truce with the apes is a fragile one, and just when it seems that the primates and humans have learned to coexist in peace, a shocking act of betrayal threatens to spark a war that will determine the dominant species.