-Finished Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014) starring Gary Oldman, Keri Russell, and Andy Serkis. The link the IMDb page can be found here. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2103281/?ref_=fn_al_tt_4

-This entertaining movie is a continuing movie in a rebooted series about genetically evolved apes that threaten the human race after a super simian flu wipes out most of the civilization. I thoroughly enjoyed this movie more than the originals or even the other reboot. There was a lot of action and well-done CGI. My favorite scene was when two apes fooled humans into pretending they were dumb and killed them and took their weapons. 8/10.

-Now to address the scientific side behind the movie. It is interesting how they approached the speech aspect of the apes in this movie. Most movies just assume that apes can learn to speak out of nowhere and run with that idea. In this movie, speech is looked at a little differently. In the beginning, the apes are pretty non-vocal and speak in grunts. They first learn sign language. And something neat that I didn't realize is that the younger apes can learn sign language easier than the older apes. This is interesting and how humans typically learn. The apes in this movie were extremely smart and were able to learn and adapt to behavior. As I mentioned earlier, the apes were able to understand that if they walked like apes, then they weren't seen as harmful, but if they acted like humans they posed a threat. I am no expert, but it might take some time before we see apes leading a revolution to overthrow humans.