Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Directed by: Rupert Wyatt
Distribution: James Franco, John Lithgow, Freida Pinto
Genre: Action-Science Fiction
Runtime: *
Viewers Rating: 3.5/5
Synopsis
Rise of the Planet of the Apes is set in contemporary San Francisco and follows a young scientist who becomes a crucial figure in the war between humans and apes. He has been testing his Alzheimer cure on apes, but one of them, named Caesar, starts to evolve rapidly, so he takes him home to live with him and protect him from the "cruel doctors," thus starting the inevitable ape revolution.