The film follows at story heart is Caesar a chimpanzee who gains humanlike intelligence and emotions from an experimental drug raised like a child by the drug’s creator Will Rodman and a primatologist Caroline Aranha and has good neighbors James and Naomi Jackson and their kids Caesar ultimately finds himself taken from the humans he loves and imprisoned in an ape sanctuary in San Bruno seeking justice for his fellow inmates Caesar gives the fellow apes the same drug that he inherited he then assembles a simian army and escapes the sanctuary putting man and ape on a collision course that could change the planet forever
