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"Rise of the Apes 3: The Final Battle" is not an adrenaline-pumping ape battle, cold and solemn ideas, director Matt Reeves in this Caesar final chapter reflects his greater ambitions, his vision to forge the film into a metaphor for human society science fiction epic, and the irony of the various thoughts it brings, it does leave people with a shock to the heart.
When Matt Reeves took over "Rise of the Apes 2", the overall style of the series has actually changed from one of its previous actions, and "The Ultimate Battle" has deepened this cold and depressing style color on the basis of the original, and used it as the basic color to complete anti-war and social thinking, which makes the film unconscious, although it is a science fiction movie, it has the same inner depth as "War Apocalypse", which is doomed to the director's more restrained creation of war scenes. Instead, he poured more ink on the character of Caesar, and thus from the perspective of his hero's twilight, he launched the final battle of the final collapse of human civilization.
Talking about the character of Caesar, it is inseparable from CG technology, as a technical aid in the movie, from the face of the character to the eyes, and even a small action, it is so tightly and seamlessly gives the protagonist Caesar a vivid sense, so that "The Ultimate Battle" can really break the barrier between science fiction and reality, and if you can follow the character of Caesar into his inner world, feel his inner evolution from revenge to redemption, you will definitely be moved by the light of human nature, and at the same time on the human side, In fact, the movie does not have a villain in the true sense, the confusion in greed, the helplessness under selfishness, and even the killing of children, through the character of the colonel, behind its madness is only the fear of human beings facing degradation and extinction.
In the film, through the antagonistic relationship between man and ape, the director also made a particularly clever refraction of the social problems of Nazism and the black slave trade that once existed in human history, when the ape has human nature, more and more evolved into a human, and people become more and more crazy under the torture of viruses and fears into apes, this illusion conceived to complete another level of construction of the film, that is, social thinking under human nature, thus through this is not a duel between apes, but a contradiction and conflict between people to trigger the anti-war point of war, It is also profound.
When the film spends a lot of time to anticipate the construction of its own depth, but ignores a lot of logical self-consistency problems, especially in the end of the film to leave little time for human problems, and in how to end, the movie is extremely perfunctory, although the avalanche can be seen as an intriguing self-inflicted sin can not live, but how can so many people back to the snow mountain, make such a big movement will not think of the avalanche problem, and the orangutan will climb the tree so all dodged a disaster, it is particularly ridiculous, Even Caesar's death at the end is only a hasty matter, which inevitably makes the film look tiger-
Although the film is slightly weak in the ending, it does not cover up the layered reflections from human nature to society to war, an epic that is not due to war, so that "The Ultimate War" does not disappoint at the same time, it brings unexpected surprises.
Personal rating: 8