halaabdulla I watched this movie 4 years ago, it's a sience fiction movie and thats my favourite type of movies, i watched it in the cinema with my brother in the eid holiday and i really loved it it's an amazing movie, it's talking about smart apes and what they will do to protect their planet from the human violence that they been facing it before in the human laboratory, i recommended you to watch it.

mss-14370 What an outstanding sequel! This movie not only topped the first one (which I love),but also managed to put this franchise in the talk of possibly the greatest trilogy of all time. Sure the planet of the apes franchise doesn't have the same level of popularity like Star Wars,or Lord of the rings,or Marvel/DC superhero films,but it has one of the most well written character I've seen in very long time,and that character is Caesar,an ape who been raised like a human being and saw the good side of humanity,in the other side there is Koba an ape who been tortured by humans and saw the bad side of humanity. Matt Reeves did an amazing job showcasing the conflict between the two apes to the point where you don't even know who you rooting for. This movie is filled with great performances,stunning CGI,and great story. 10/10 A must see.

Gavin Purtell 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes' does a great job of continuing the story from 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes', without picking up directly where it ended or doing any gimmicky flashbacks. The graphic of how the simian virus spread was quite original and the opening shot of Caesar - and indeed the first 15min or so - does a great job of showing so much, without needing any talking.The setting is still Muir Woods in San Francisco, but a lot has changed, with the apes now living peacefully and successfully in the forest and the humans a desperate mess in the city. I was amazed by how quickly I was cheering for the apes and, if not despising, then at least not caring for the humans at all! Caesar (Serkis), Koba (Kebbell), Blue Eyes (Thurston) & Maurice (Konoval) are the main stars here, with Dreyfus (Oldman), Malcolm (Clarke) & Ellie (Russell) merely making up the numbers. It's great to have Serkis back as Caesar, the "king of the Apes", with such nuanced and believable body language and facial expressions. Hard to believe he has gone from obscurity to the world's greatest motion-capture actor in just over 10 years! He's now responsible for three of the biggest characters of all time - Caesar, King Kong & Gollum - and he'll be in 'Star Wars: Episode VII' next year!So much happens in this film - it's tense and dramatic in parts, then a full blown war in others and a political tug-of-war in others, and often times both "sides" are trying hard to do right, but something prevents that. It's definitely not boring and flies along, looking great, and importantly too - sounding great, with a nice score underneath and throughout.Seeing as this is the seventh film in the franchise (no one counts Burton's 2001 remake, right?), it definitely leaves you wondering and anticipating what will happen in the third of the "prequel trilogy" and see how they link them to the original 60s/70s films. It will also be amazing if they have the third prequel made by 2016, considering how much CGI & motion-capture detail they will need for the epic 'conclusion'...

CBV After the ending of the first film, I was hoping they would make a sequel so that we could see where the story would go next, luckily in 2014 we got exactly that, and it didn't disappoint. When I heard that Wyatt was retiring as a director in this franchise, I got a bit nervous because whenever you change directors within a franchise, I can either work really well or really bad, but then I heard that they hired Matt Reeves to direct the sequel, the same man who directed Cloverfield and Let Me In, that gave me a bit more confidence in the sequel. Matt Reeves did one heck of a job directing this movie, is stunning, the cinematography is just beautiful. Andy Serkis is once again great as Caesar and Toby Kebbell was also fantastic as Koba, once again the human characters played by Jason Clarke and Keri Russell, while giving good performances, the writing of their characters never made them as interesting as the apes, but that is also because the people playing the apes are that good. I really like the story and how is executed, a lot of things you'd think would be predictable in a movie like this, are done in ways you wouldn't expect. I really think Dawn is up there with T2 and The Dark Knight as one of those few sequels that don't just live up to it's predecessor, it excels it.