The first movie in the Planet of the Apes reboot trilogy – Rise – was so packed with Apes-flavoured Easter eggs that you barely needed to hunt for them.īut when director Matt Reeves took on the franchise with the sequel Dawn, he pared the wink-wink references down to a barely noticeable minimum, not wanting to distract the audience too much from focusing on his new direction with the story. WARNING! THIS PIECE CONTAINS MAJOR SPOILERS