Just taken scene-by-scene for the special effects, and even some of the acting… it’s an entertaining movie. But, when you think of the movie as a whole, there are some pretty major issues with the plot. Normally, I can put these things aside, but in this case, they were distracting. Instead of enjoying the movie, I was thinking about this stuff.
Question 1: What exactly are the apes going to do for food? Even during their day of rampage, I think they’d be left pretty darn hungry. Muir Woods is cool, but the redwoods don’t supply much food.
Question 2: During their rampage, the apes free a bunch of their brethren from the zoo. But, the zoo apes haven’t been spritzed with the “smart virus”, so how would they know what’s going on? They’re still “stupid apes”, as the orangutan put it.
Question 3: The actions of the guy running the company just aren’t rational. No executive would be so completely stupid – they’d be fired immediately… And ramping up production of an unapproved drug isn’t only stupid, it’s illegal.
With a little more imaginative writing, these questions could have been addressed, and the movie would have been better for it. How is it possible that people could spend millions of dollars on a movie, and be so lazy as to leave huge holes in the plot?
So, I guess we’re left with the obvious sequel, where the disease spreads and the apes take over… is that it?