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.

Zero by J. S. Collyer – A Review.

“The action sequences are very well written, and don’t read like blocking or choreographing, as is sometimes the case with some writers. This is science fiction, but isn’t bogged down with pseudo-scientific jargon or strange, inaccessible concepts that only appeal to sci-fi enthusiasts. This is simply a good story — part mystery, part adventure, filled with great characters and enough twists to keep it unpredictable and interesting.”

Nice review, J.S.!!  🙂

Head on over to “What I Am Reading” to accompany 4-LAN the friendly Bookbot on a dark journey to a dystopian future.  Alan Sickler’s “The Twenty Year Reset” sounds damned interesting!

http://thebookmarketingnetwork.com/profiles/blogs/what-i-am-reading-17

“EVERYTHING’S EVENTUAL.”

ALL the twerps have opened their eyes except for Little Ninja! (Perhaps he is The Blind Swordsman?)

I picked one up (Mamacat is totally chill with me doing that), but the little twerp got scared and started meeeeeeowing really loud, so I put him right back down again. I guess my Beastmaster powers only go so far.

Find out for free.

Chapter 1 of “The Dogs Don’t Bark In Brooklyn Any More”  was originally intended as a standalone, milieu-type science fiction-horror story.  And it’s an enjoyable introduction to the universe imagined by “The Wolf War Saga” book series.

It’s a click away.  Read or download it over at Smashwords.com:

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/375938

or read it at Bublish.com:

http://bublish.com/bubble/view/2202/

And if you do decide to fight for humanity, then check out the entire tale here via Amazon:

“NEX UT TOTUS LUPUS!”

This little fella is obviously advanced for his age.

He seems to have fallen asleep while reading.