![]() In the Reeves-directed Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014), set some 10 years later, the apes have built a world of their own, but tensions flare between them and the relatively few surviving humans. In the first movie in the rebooted franchise, the 2011 Rise of the Planet of the Apes (directed by Rupert Wyatt), a bunch of superbright apes–the virus that has made them so smart is lethal to humans–break out of a Northern California research facility and scamper to freedom in a redwood forest. This is a spectacle that trusts us to think. But Matt Reeves’ War for the Planet of the Apes is something else, a summer blockbuster that treats its audience members as primates of a higher order. Pictures built to entertain us with increasingly elaborate special effects, marathon-length run times and plots that sprawl off the rails within the first 20 minutes don’t necessarily make us feel more human. The bigger movies get, somehow the smaller we get.
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