And when the battles come, Cloverfield director Matt Reeves (who inherited the project from Wyatt) handles the action sequences with aplomb, keeping his eye on character even as grand spectacle reigns – the key to maintaining an element of dizzying danger.
Shot largely on location in the forests of Vancouver, Dawn benefits greatly from capturing the actors' performances in the wild. While the 'native 3D' remains a take-it-or-leave-it addition (the best I can say is that it bothered me less than usual), the organic scope of the digitised character creation is breathtaking, using the technology to tell the story from the point of view of the apes, who remain the primary focus of the narrative. Remember, it took the original series three movies before we really began to see the world through other than human eyes.
#Rise of the planet of the apes subtitles sign language series This latest reboot, which quotes directly from Battle, revels in the opportunity to make the homo-sapiens the secondary species.
