This movie is great. I'm surprised how good this movie is even when comparing it to Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and War of the Planet of the Apes (because those movies are basically back-to-back masterpieces). Have only minor problems with it, but they are all problems I have when I compare it to the rest of the trilogy. I'd still recommend it to people.
This movie tells the story of Caesar and how he got intelligent. It starts with a scientist played by James Franco who's trying to find a cure to his dad's mental ailment, which I think is dementia / Alzheimer's. In the process he infects one of his co-workers with a virus called the Simian flu. While Caesar the first ape given the treatment becomes increasingly intelligent and infects the Apes and gorillas and orangutans he is house with with the same virus which makes all of them smart also. Which leads to conflict
