Rise of the Planet of the Apes

On the Golden Gate bridge, the police cars and officers are waiting by the end of the road, weapons drawn.

One officer at the end with a handgun has it drawn, then the next shot has it holstered, then the next shot has it drawn again.

The bus on the Golden Gate Bridge is shown in various different positions despite not being moved.

After the roof of the bus is riddled with bullet-holes the action cuts to a side on view of the apes advancing.

In this shot the bus is unscathed.

The movie places Muir Woods in the Marin Headlands, just to the north of the Golden Gate Bridge.

In reality, they are about 5 miles to the NW of that location and the bridge is not visible because of the hills and trees in between.

Additionally, the Marin Headlands are mostly wind swept grass and scrub brush and have very few trees, let alone redwood forests.

When Charles sits in the Mustang and puts it in drive, then reverse then drive again.

He gets pulled out of the car, but he never switches the gear into neutral.

The type of respirator used during the initial test of ALZ-113 requires a snug fit to the face to prevent outside air from leaking in.

The character of Franklin has a thick beard, which would have broken this seal, rendering the respirator ineffective.

When the apes jump on the cable car, they move down a hill where they can see the Golden Gate Bridge behind downtown.

In actuality, the bridge is a distance away.

There would be nowhere in San Francisco where it would be visible as that close from a cable car on a hill near downtown.

Chimps, orangutan and bonobos don't grow over 5 feet tall, this could tell that they aren't real apes.

Chimps and orangutans grow 4 through 5 feet tall and bonobos grow up to 4 feet tall.

On the Golden Gate Bridge, Caesar stands on the roof of a Nissan Maxima and raises his hand and roars as he stops the Apes advance.

In the next shot, Caesar is seen from the rear and the car is a Volkswagen Jetta.

Buck's nostrils are rounded yet a gorilla's nostrils are covered by a small amount of skin folded along the area.

When Caesar and Will stroll along the chimp exhibit at the San Francisco Zoo, there is a sign that says orangutan exhibit when yet the San Francisco Zoo doesn't have orangutans.

After the Golden Gate fight scene, all the police cars are shut up, smashed and on fire.

Will gets in one that was right in the middle of the mayhem, yet it is unscratched.

- There's no guarantee that everything would sustain damage despite how unlikely it would be.

The end credits give thanks for allowing the use of clips from a movie called "The French Connection II.

" There is no movie by this name, the actual movie is called _French Connection II (1975)_ (qv) (there is no "the" in the title.

) When Dodge Landon drags the cattle prod across the cage, we see a shower of sparks.

However, if you drag a real electric cattle prod across a metal surface, you will only see blue arcing, no different than the blue arcing between the prongs.

Dodge Landon is presumably electrocuted in a dramatic shower of sparks when he's sprayed with the water hose while holding an electric cattle prod.

This is pure nonsense.

There is nowhere near enough power contained within this battery powered device to electrocute somebody.

- PLOTIt can't have been a surprise to the staff that Bright Eyes was pregnant.

Animals used for medical tests are very closely examined both before and after treatment.

When Will is giving his presentation to the board, he states that ALZ-112 has potential to cure central nervous system diseases, yet the presentation screen behind him flashing names of diseases flashes Muscular Dystrophy which is an intrinsic muscle disease, not a CNS disease.

When the apes are crossing the bridge, it is covered in fog.

However, by the time they are at the top of the redwoods, there is no fog on the bridge.

Chimps don't have suitable throats or vocal cords to produce human speech, as Caesar does.

(That's why they were taught sign language.

) When the apes make their escape, it is supposed to be at dawn, but the footage was clearly shot with the sun in the west, at sunset.

When Caesar throws food in Landon's face the tray of food in his cage is full.

But after Landon soaks him with the hose and walks away, the food tray is totally empty (and it was not sprayed with the hose).

When they first took Caesar to the redwood forest, the California license plate registration sticker for their Jeep had an expiration of June 2010.

Later when they show the grown Caesar the building complex where he was born, the registration sticker is still June 2010, despite this scene taking place five years later.

- PLOTWhen the intelligent apes that were exposed to ALZ-112 escaped from the sanctuary, they went to the San Francisco Zoo and freed all the apes from a large exhibit area.

The freed apes joined the group on their fight for freedom.

However, the zoo apes had not been exposed to ALZ-112 and would not have had the intelligence to plan and organize like the transformed apes.

Caesar was sent to the San Bruno Primate Sanctuary.

It was located atop Twin Peaks,which is in the heart of the city of San Francisco.

San Bruno is a suburb eleven miles south of San Francisco.

The experimental drugs in the movie were ALZ-112 and ALZ-113.

The "ALZ" prefix was in reference to what the drug was designed to treat, Alzheimer's Disease.

In the pharmaceutical industry, however, drugs in development are named with a prefix that is an abbreviation for the company developing it.

Since the company's name was Gen-sys, a drug name of "GNS-112" would be plausible.

When Will is giving his presentation to the board, he states that ALZ-112 has potential to cure central nervous system diseases, yet the presentation screen behind him flashing names of diseases flashes Muscular Dystrophy which is an intrinsic muscle disease, not a CNS disease.

'Rise of the Planet of the Apes' is a reboot/prequel to the 1968 classic 'Planet of the Apes', and the main problem with the film is that it doesn't quite know which of those two things it wants to be. If it's a prequel, then it contains a good backstory for why the earth becomes overrun with apes, but falls at the hurdle of having a time setting that is completely different to the original.

Like most people reviewing I have a liking for the original Planet of the Apes movies... BUT, I am getting tired of the lack of originality and reliance on re-inventing past classics with the advent of new movie-making technology.

Speaking as someone who hasn't seen the original films, I really enjoyed this one. Sure, it was an action movie, but it built up to the final twenty minutes in a way that was believable and satisfying.

I love movies and know a good movie when I see it.Rise of the Apes blew me away.

Okay, so this was a good film. It was good as I expected it to be.

I loved the original film, the sequels that followed were a mixed bag and I disliked Tim Burton's remake especially for the ending. I wasn't sure at first whether I would like Rise of the Planet of the Apes, but guess what?

Amazing how many times can Hollywood try to squeeze the idea that triggered in 1968 the 'Planet of the Apes' series. The original film starred Charlton Heston and led to four sequels in the few years after its original release.

Director Rupert Wyatt ("The Escapist") proves there is always time for firsts by successfully producing a movie of epic proportions and creating the best "Planet of the Apes" film since the original. By taking a different and innovative route Wyatt has saved the once dying franchise making it better than ever.

I am 20 years old, and this is one of my favorite movies now. This is also the first review that I've ever written, so the readers can probably tell that I am trying to sound like I know what I am writing.