War for the Planet of the Apes

Absolutely fantastic ending to a trilogy that was better than it ever had any business being (and one of the rare trilogies that gets better with each film).

Much less action-oriented than I expected - it was advertised as Saving Private Ryan with apes, but it’s really more of a Schindler’s List/Apocalypse Now/Bridge on the River Kwai mashup with apes, and I loved every second of it. Woody Harrelson did a great job as the Kurtz figure, and of course Serkis was brilliant as Caesar.

The effects were even more stunning than the first two films - at many points I forgot I was watching mocap CGI apes, which I don’t think ever really happened with Rise and Dawn.

Highly recommended. Here’s hoping if they continue the series they don’t fuck it up, but even if they do I’m very happy pretending anything past this trilogy doesn’t exist (like I do with the Bourne series).

9 CGI gorillas out of 10.