Family and trust are two huge themes that play an essential role in this sequel, making it one of the most successful and emotional summer blockbusters this year behind Days of Future Past. Director Matt Reeves is able to embrace the challenge to maintain the epic strength from Rise of the Planet of the Apes and deliver good story, though slightly underwhelming strong human-apes relationship and a bit of overlong in the first half of the film. The plot itself is pretty straightforward, ventures in four main aspects - home, family, war and future; predictable but full with moral values. The apes are mimicking human by having the same personality which indirectly let audiences to see our own real personality from what had happened among the apes this time. Although the climax does not seems to be extremely exciting, the most successful move of this film is to hire Michael Giacchino as the composer who has contributed both horror and emotional types of scores to enhance the darker tone of the film.
