2014 · sci-fi · drama · action
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Directed by Matt Reeves2h 10m2014
A group of scientists in San Francisco struggle to stay alive in the aftermath of a plague that is wiping out humanity, while Caesar tries to maintain dominance over his community of intelligent apes.
Our read: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive sci-fi · drama · action entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, extreme sci-fi / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
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