War for the Planet of the Apes Blu Ray Review

The Pic (three/5)

War for the Planet of the Apes is the tertiary and concluding movie of the re-rebooted Planet of the Apes Trilogy, Caesar (Andy Serkis) leads his Apes in a final disharmonize against the mad Colonel McCullough. Director Matt Reeves is fond of pitting humanity against nature in his films, and this movie is no exception to that pattern.

First off, I must acknowledge that this trilogy has brought an astonishing and unique scifi visions to life. The humans are the clear antagonists of the series, the Apes dominate the screen time and in a fun twist communicate primarily through hand gestures, and the special effects work and motion capture piece of work is breathtaking and revolutionary throughout all three films. Andy Serkis deserves his moment in the spotlight and it is truly astonishing to meet a homo who started his career as a animal characteristic character thespian helming a Hollywood Blockbuster trilogy that has brought in over a billion dollars of ticket revenue from picture palace goers.

While I enjoyed this unique spin on a archetype during the first movie in this series (Rise of the Planet of the Apes), I feel similar something was lost in adapting the concepts which began in that flick into a trilogy and it really shows hither in the finale, War for the Planet of the Apes. I'm non certain Caesar's tale merited 4 more hours of storytelling after the first movie, and the plodding charge per unit at which State of war dragged during its ii 60 minutes and 20 minute runtime did niggling to brand me think otherwise. I'chiliad normally a big fan of vastly original concepts coming to life on the big screen, just I experience similar I missed the bandwagon for State of war.

I went in with an open mind, but at that place but wasn't enough hither to go me invested in the story. I felt similar I was watching another adaptation of Cormack McCarthy's The Road with Great Apes thrown in for good measure out. Much like The Road, the setting is incredibly bleak. Aye, the Apes themselves look astonishing, but the moving picture has been made to expect so drab that I feels information technology harms the vitality of the special effects and the natural landscapes.  War turns the incredibly lush forests of Northern California into a bleak and lifeless place. Mail service-production filters have sucked the color out of the picture show and the continuously dreary and washed color tones that dominate this film are incredibly tiring to watch.

Almost damning of all is the strangely muddled plot of the flick (lite spoilers ahead).  I'm usually good at reading movies, simply this ane eluded me. I don't know if I missed key dialogue, or it was chopped upward on the editing room floor, but the timeline of this film did not brand much sense. Caesar's Ape tribe is attacked past humans and his family is decimated, Caesar orders his tribe to run to the hills (presumably in the reverse direction of the human being baddies), and Caesar and a crack team of his Ape pals from the previous two films track closely behind the humans and discover their fortress. Somehow the hundreds of Apes he sent away to the hills have all been rounded upward by the small armed forces detachment of humans and forcibly dragged to their evil fortress without Caesar noticing. Information technology doesn't experience like enough time within the picture show has passed from the moment he left his tribe to go his revenge to the moment he finds his tribe enslaved in a concentration camp and starving to expiry. There's also the question of why the humans are even bothering to round up the Apes in the beginning place. Imprisoning the rowdy and unreliable Apes keeps the humans from devoting all their resources to their very dire problems.

Audio (4/5)

The audio in this motion picture did an adequete task, and matched the tone we received in the residue of the picture. The audio does nothing to distract me from the pacing of this moving picture, but its hard to mistake sound engineers and composers for a dragging plot. The few boxing scenes were reasonably epic, and the audio did a skillful job carrying the scale of what was happening. I would have liked for the soundtrack to be less drab, maybe fifty-fifty a bit more sorrowful (anything to add color, visually or thematically, to this film). Overall it sounded appropriately cinematic via the DolbyHD track, but at the same fourth dimension zippo really stood out to me as truly spectacular regarding the sound in War of the Planet of the Apes.

Extras/Packaging (4/five)

While I don't currently own a complete 4K Setup, I did invest in the 4K version of this film as a ways of future proofing my drove.

Special Features:

Deleted Scenes with Optional Audio Commentary by Matt Reeves

• Graveyard
• Turncoats
• Barrier Wall
• "I Owe Y'all One"
• "A Great Human"
• "Practice Not Lose Promise"
• Snowfall
• The Colonel's Spoken communication
• Malcolm and the Dinosaurs
• "I Am Like Koba"

Featurettes:

• "Waging War for the Planet of the Apes" – In-depth documentary on the making of State of war FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES
• "All About Caesar"
• "WETA: Pushing Boundaries"
• "Music for Apes"
• "Apes: The Meaning of it All"
• "The Apes Saga: An Homage"

Concept Art Gallery

Audio Commentary by Matt Reeves

Technical Specs (click for technical FAQs):

Region Coding: A
Subtitles: English language SDH, French, Spanish
Runtime: 120 minutes

Video

Codec: MPEG-4 AVC (H.264)
Resolution: 1080p
Aspect Ratio: 2.4:1 (originally 2.39:i)

Audio

English: Dolby Atmos,  Dolby TrueHD 7.1
Castilian: Dolby Digital 5.1
French: DTS 5.1

Overall

War is definely a massive technical accomplishment in filmmaking, just at that place isn't much to picket in this film as well its special effects. The pacing of this moving-picture show drags hard, and the plot is convoluted. The most dissapointing thing nigh this film is the waste of a 4K UHD release. While I have only viewed the standard Blu-ray version, I chose to purchase this film'south 4K UHD release with the blind hope that the 4K Resolution and HDR would help the first class furnishings in this flick actually smooth after I upgraded my setup enough to appreciate it. Sadly, subsequently seeing the bland digital color filters this film has been harshly subjected to and learning that this film was digitally mastered at 2K, I'm not certain there is much room for improvement via the 4K UHD disc. You should judge this with your own optics, but I feel that HDR really only helps films mastered at 2K when the color gamut is more broad than what nosotros received on this release. Speaking in general, I was not very impressed by State of war for the Planet of the Apes, and I don't experience like it did a good task in justifying a trilogy about Caesar's tale. The end of humanity and the ascension of the Apes merely should not be this boring.

(3.v/5) – Spotter out for Ape Poop!

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