Whille a good review (much better than some "Christian" reviews that read as if the writers never even saw the films) I will question the Colonel & his unit of fanatical rogues are in any way Christian. The sight of some symbols aside the movie, and the novelized prequel, made it clear Colonel disbelieved in the Triune God. Instead, he and his followers believed humanity itself was the "beginning & the end". Much like Hitler had with his beliefs regarding the " supior " human race. Not to mention Hitler was deluded to believe he was a messiah. At the time frame of the film the reason there was only one good human seen was any soldiers who had a shard of conscious had already fled Colonel's unit due to the type of orders he was giving. As for young Nova and those like her, while the mutated virus robed of speech it didn't seem with her anyway that all her cognitive abilities were taken. She had been adopted by the orangutan Maurice as a daughter. As one of the tribe. Not a pet.