Reeves, serving as co-writer once more with Mark Bomback, brings the franchise to its natural and thrilling conclusion. War for the Planet of the Apes is a blockbuster with soul.
The opening shot of Matt Reeves’ Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is a close-up of Caesar’s face that slowly pans out to reveal the life the apes have created for themselves.
How do you critically evaluate a film that is so incredibly predictable that it feels put together by a computer algorithm rather than having any human hands involved?