The Is Now. FOR YOUR CONSIDERA TION
Richard Corliss, TIME
"No question, the movie is an astounding triumph of visual effects. Again, Serkis is playing a motion-capture monkey — the prime primate, Caesar— and gives a performance so nuanced and powerful it may challenge the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to give an Oscar to an actor who is never seen in the film. Hundreds of apes are onscreen in Rise, but no real ones were in the cast; all are humans, filmed and transformed through motion capture by (Peter) Jackson's Weta Digital... So no chimps were harmed in the making of this picture."
