I really liked it!  It had a fun, cool depiction of ape culture, and a surprisingly awesome villain in the form of Koba.  The great CGI and some terrific voice acting made both Koba and extremely likable Caesar seem real.

The action and special effects delivered; this was a nice little darker action flick with a science fiction premise.  Koba and the sometimes unsettling battle scenes made this something that would also please horror movie fans as well.   The scene where Koba tricks the two men at target practice?  Yeesh.  Look at that sneer.

We’ve got three cardboard good guys that make up a pretty boring de facto nuclear family.  For a better example of how to script post-apocalyptic characters, the screenwriters ought to see “28 Days Later” and “The Walking Dead.”  Jason Clarke’s Malcom was sooo nice and intuitively understanding, I kept hoping that one of the apes would knock him upside the head to slap some character depth into him.  The far more interesting characters were Koba, Caesar, and Gary Oldman’s Dreyfus.

Question — does Kirk Acevedo play a shmuck in everything that he’s in?  I am reaching for an “Oz vs. Apes” joke right now, but cannot seem to find it.

Question — I am no techie, but would human survivors really need hydroelectricity just to power a long-range radio?  Couldn’t something like that be powered by a generator or some other power source?

Anyway, this was a fun, darker sci-fi movie — I’d happily recommend it.