War for the Planet of the Apes

"For freedom. For family. For the planet."

2017 2h 20m EN

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★7.2TMDB · 10,018🍅94%Rotten Tomatoes●82Metacritic★7.4IMDB · 324,617

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Synopsis

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Caesar and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colonel. After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind. As the journey finally brings them face to face, Caesar and the Colonel are pitted against each other in an epic battle that will determine the fate of both their species and the future of the planet.

“For freedom. For family. For the planet.”

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Cast

Andy Serkis
Caesar
Woody Harrelson
The Colonel
Karin Konoval
Maurice
Terry Notary
Rocket
Steve Zahn
Bad Ape
Amiah Miller
Nova
Ty Olsson
Red Donkey
Michael Adamthwaite
Luca

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Matt Reeves
Writers: Mark Bomback, Matt Reeves
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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MONEY

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$150M budget — tentpole studio territory.

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MONEY

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Made its money back 3.3× over at the box office.

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3 / 8

ERA

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Released 9 years ago.

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4 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Planet of the Apes (Reboot) Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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5 / 8

CAST

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212+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Matt Reeves, shot by Michael Seresin. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Michael Giacchino. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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8 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor William Hoy shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Matt Reeves directs. Michael Seresin behind the camera. Michael Giacchino scores. William Hoy cuts. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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1$150M budget — tentpole studio territory.
2Made its money back 3.3× over at the box office.
3Released 9 years ago.
4Part of the "Planet of the Apes (Reboot) Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
5212+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.
6Directed by Matt Reeves, shot by Michael Seresin. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
7Original score by Michael Giacchino. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
8Editor William Hoy shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
9Andy Serkis and Woody Harrelson and Karin Konoval carry the top of the cast.
10Marketing tagline: "For freedom. For family. For the planet.".
11IMDB entry: tt3450958 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
1210,018 TMDB user ratings logged — serious cultural footprint.
13Classified under 54 themes, including "suicide", "civil war", "escape", "winter".

The technical file

Cinematography: Michael Seresin
Original score: Michael Giacchino
Editing: William Hoy
Production design: James Chinlund
Costume design: Melissa Bruning
Makeup / hair: Bev Wright
VFX supervisor: Dan Lemmon
Sound: Will Files
Stunt coordinator: John Stoneham Jr.
Runtime: 140 min · 2h 20m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $150,000,000
Box office: $490,719,763
Return: 327% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG-13
IMDB: War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)
Rotten Tomatoes: 94% 🍅 Fresh
Metacritic: 82/100
IMDB rating: 7.4/10 · 324,617 votes
MPAA: PG-13

Awards

Nominated for 1 Oscar. 28 wins & 65 nominations total

Part of

Planet of the Apes (Reboot) Collection

Caesar, a laboratory chimpanzee, develops human intelligence and emotions, triggering an epic battle to determine which species will dominate planet Earth.

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Movie Queen412017-07-17
★ 8/10
Excellent trilogy Most Hollywood remakes/reboots are failed cash grabs. They are pale imitations of the superior originals. But the new Planet of the Apes trilogy surprises in that it trumps all the previous Apes films--those from the 60's and 70's as well as the Tim Burton 2001 misfire. Caesar still leads the intelligent apes against the human forces who want to eradicate them. Caesar even shows mercy to some of his human captives, but the humans who fear the apes will not relent in their attempts to destroy them. The movie is driven largely by Andy Serkis's superb portrayal of Caesar. He is a complex and intriguing character. Woody Harrelson is also very good as the villain. His character is no generic, stock bad guy. He's layered and you may even surprisingly feel some sympathy for him. A great and thought provoking popcorn flick.
Dark Jedi2017-12-29
★ 3/10
On this movie I have to get a couple of things out of the way straight away. First, the movie title and the blurb is hyperbole that has little to do with actual events in the movie. This is not some great war but just some silly little three way skirmish between some apes and two human factions. Second, the story for this movie is clearly written by someone who has an agenda and that agenda includes preaching how bad the white man is. Not surprisingly the result is bland, boring, frustrating and not very entertaining. I thought Dawn of the Planet of the Apes was mildly entertaining. Mostly due to the special effects. I thought Rise of the Planet of the Apes was okay. Again due to the special effects and because it had a fair amount of action. War for the Planet of the Apes do have decent special effects but nothing else. Add the obvious political agenda and the movie goes straight into a nose dive. The humans in the movie are stereotypical bad people and the apes are victims whether they are actually good apes or just asshole apes. There’s some decent action in the beginning and some at the end. In between we are “treated” to a slew of emotional scenes (or at least I suppose that’s what they were supposed to be) were Ceasars grief and the evil of man are force fed down our throats. Not surprisingly the movie ends, which it of course do not do until all humans in sight are killed off for no good reason, with the apes finding their little part of heaven all shown in warm and rosy colors. Close curtain…thank good! I was not expecting much from this movie but this was a typical Hollywood-with-an-agenda-movie. That is, not a good movie as far as I am concerned.
Gimly2018-01-05
★ 7/10
The title War for the Planet of the Apes is perhaps a misnomer, and it doesn't necessarily build the legend in the way I was expecting it to, but a worthy threequel it still makes, and blockbuster trilogy with no bad entries is a rare thing to see. Final rating:★★★½ - I really liked it. Would strongly recommend you give it your time.