I checked it out the first showing before i left on fiday

I loved it frank! yeagh I liked the different explanantionas o the origin of 'how the planet got that way'. As for the chimp, remember, electronics did not work with those probes in the electrical sotrm/whatever, that is probably why they had biologics (chimps) running them; perhaps they probed things like that before nd new there might be power loss, loss of radio communications etc. . . I know, not the greatest explanantion but it does work.

I was able to predict the last two twists at the ending, the one during the battle and of course the ending ;-) as for the ending itself I do agree that it came out of left feild (although like I said I could still predict it, I just treated it as another dimension.

It did well in paying tribute to the origional. I almost cracked up in the theater the way they worked old Charlton Heston into the film uttering his famous line 'damn them all to hell!' (in a reversed context)

the line 'get your hands of me you etc. . " was also uttered but it seemed to have been stuck in there cause they could figure out a better place to put it but like the other one liner was used in a different way.

the makup was great, except the gorrilas makup had not changed a whole lot (not much you could do with the gorilla makeup). The actor who played General Thaad was really good IMHO.

I recomend seeing it in the Theater! :-) but then again I go to the movies a lot. . .

(further warning, I also think Jackie Chan movies are great)
-Justin Kelly