A Witty Mix of Human and Chimp via 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes'

If I find James Franco as one of the casts of a movie, I would go ahead and look forward. Simply I am hands down to the actor's skills. Proven by his moving performance via '127 Hours', Franco is expected to be great in this sci-fi flick.

Young genetic engineer, Will, striving hard on his way to his career's vanguard, works for a San Francisco biotech company, wherein he finds himself a baby chimp that inherited an acquired trait of her mother via Will's syringe that regenerates brain cells enabling one to function better. Mayhem ensues as Caesar, the baby chimp was exposed to the world and witness human's fiendish and inhumane acts, and Caesar got back-up.

'Planet of the Apes' adheres to the convention of the genre of which Science and a witty scientist goes beyond boundaries that usually ensues chaos when events turn around achingly as not expected. I would go ahead and ignore this. Because while the film paddles through a pool of stunning cast: James Franco as a convincing actor as he is; a moving performance as a supportive father courtesy: John Lithgow; a chimp sharing its body with the dude behind Gollum (Lord of the Rings) via Andy Serkis; and Will's ape-lover girlfriend by Freida Pinto, it [Rise of the Planet of the Apes] takes chances with motion capturing and successfully presenting heart to the audience. 'Planet' exposes how inhumane us humans can get. And sometimes these chimps are enough alarm clocks to wake up from our daydreaming and be humans as what we are called. There are actions that are unexpectedly suspenseful that made me love the movie even more.

A sting of the imagery looks like a scene from a video game, or an intro for a movie productions company; however fortunately it eases to present suspense and heart and then travel along in just the middle of the two. 4 stars.