![]() Think of the famously iconic climactic image from the original 1968 Planet of the Apes - the downfall of everything Captain America represents. Instead of a research project intended to create an army of super-soldiers that, due to unforeseen misfortune, never gets beyond the prototype, Rise offers a research project that produces an accidental prototype which eventually leads to an unforeseen army - not of super-soldiers but of super-apes, who of course do not champion the American way but will eventually destroy it. In a number of respects, Rise of the Planet of the Apes plays as a sort of mirror image of Captain America. ![]() Like First Class, Rise of the Planet of the Apes is a prequel/reboot to an existing cinematic franchise and, like both First Class and Captain America - the best popcorn action movies of the summer - Rise tells a well-crafted back story about biologically enhanced beings. An origin story, oh yes, like so many others this summer, including X-Men: First Class, Thor, Green Lantern and Captain America: The First Avenger. ![]()
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