![]() ![]() But more importantly this film needs to be seen on a giant screen with a stellar projection system because the time and effort put into the apes faces is frankly, out of this world. The action is thrilling and the sound mix is top notch. I saw the film in a theater that's really only a step down from IMAX and I recommend that everyone do the same. What this all boils down to is that Dawn really does have something for everyone. Each film hinges respectively on its traits and what's so great about Dawn is that not only does it make a virtue of the action filmmaking that elevated Cloverfield but it also manages to spend as much time on the kind of quiet, emotional character building that attracted Reeves to remaking Let The Right One In in the first place. Let Me In is a much quieter film that focuses far more on building atmosphere and letting relationships between the characters have time to breathe and stretch their legs. Cloverfield is a non-stop shaky-cam thrill ride with explosions, screaming, and firefights. The first of which is that director Matt Reeves decided to take his two most recent films and mash them together tonally. So here I go urging people of all walks of movie going life to band together and pay some money to see Dawn. And then there's the Tim Burton reboot from 2001 which didn't do too much to improve the series' persona in the eyes of the movie going public. Namely, that of a cast dressed in monkey suits that don't totally hold up forty-six years later. ![]() Most people have heard of the original run of Planet Of The Apes films and despite the fact they're generally well-regarded, they do carry a stigma. Strong." I also remember many of the people around me in the theater laughing out loud throughout most of the trailer for Apes. I sat there truly hoping that they were laughing out of some kind of ignorance of the reboot's first installment Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes, which, admittedly surprised me with a truly beautiful tale of friendship, family, and every living thing's desire to simply be free. I remember seeing the trailer for The Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes and hearing Andy Serkis' character Caesar gruffly say "Apes.
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