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Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes (out Aug 4) is rubbish. They spend 90 minutes setting up the story and yet still do a bad job of it. Characters' motivations are never explained and certain storylines go nowhere. I tried to stay with it but the film completely lost me when they started using subtitles so we could understand the apes communicating. Bahahaha. Grade: C.