War For The Planet Of The Apes

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	Andy Serkis	Caesar
	Woody Harrelson	The Colonel
	Steve Zahn	Bad Ape
	Karin Konoval	Maurice
	Amiah Miller	Nova
	Terry Notary	Rocket
	Ty Olsson	Red Donkey
	Michael Adamthwaite	Luca
	Toby Kebbell	Koba
	Gabriel Chavarria	Preacher
	Judy Greer	Cornelia
	Sara Canning	Lake
	Devyn Dalton	Cornelius
	Aleks Paunovic	Winter
	Alessandro Juliani	Spear
	Max Lloyd-Jones	Blue Eyes
	Timothy Webber	Ape Elder
	Lauro Chartrand	Look Out Ape
	Shaun Omaid	Soldier Who Sees Ape
	Roger R. Cross	Captain
	Mercedes de la Zerda	Lang
	Douglas Chapman	Alpha Omega Deserter
	James Pizzinato	Captured Soldier
	Chad Rook	Boyle
	Dean Redman	Commanding Officer

Crew View all

Director	Matt Reeves
Writer	Mark Bomback, Matt Reeves, Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, Pierre Boulle
Producer	Mark Bomback, Peter Chernin, Dylan Clark, Rick Jaffa, Mary McLaglen, Amanda Silver, Ryan Stafford, Jenno Topping
Musician	Michael Giacchino
Photography	Michael Seresin

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War for the Planet of the Apes is presented on Blu-ray courtesy of 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment with an AVC encoded 1080p transfer in 2.40:1. Captured with Arri 65s (according to the closing credits) and finished at a 2K DI, this is another stunner of a presentation of the new Apes films from Fox on Blu-ray. While a lot of this film is ominously dark and shadowed, detail levels are often jaw droppingly precise, especially in some potentially problematic areas like fur and hair rendering on the CGI characters. There's a cold, dreary, kind of gray ambience to a lot of the outdoor material, but the integration of CGI elements and "real life" locations continues to be a visually arresting experience, and one which is delivered with excellent detail levels and a lack of compression anomalies across the board. Even the aggressively graded sequences (many in cool tones favoring blues and grays) tend to offer superior detail levels, especially in the many extreme close-ups.

War for the Planet of the Apes features a great sounding DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 track, one which gets off to a somewhat unusual and atavistic sounding start with what I assume to be composer Michael Giacchino's "recasting" of the venerable Alfred Newman Fox fanfare. As should probably be expected, the film begins with an epic showdown between simians and humans in the forest, and right off the bat it's clear the sound design is going to offer a glut of surround activity, with elements like soaring arrows and explosive charges rampaging through the soundstage. There are of course a number of battles in the film, as might be gleaned by its very title, but even in ostensibly quieter moments, there is nuanced attention paid to the ambient environmental sounds of the forest, or even the "concentration camp" where many of the apes end up. Dialogue, effects and score are all rendered flawlessly, with excellent fidelity and extremely wide dynamic range.

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