Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024)
Directed by Wes Ball
Several generations following Caesar's reign, apes – now the dominant species – live harmoniously while humans have been reduced to living in the shadows. As a new tyrannical ape leader builds his empire, one young ape undertakes a harrowing journey that will cause him to question all he's known about the past and to make choices that will define a future for apes and humans alike.
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REVIEW – ‘Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes' beautifully continues the epic legacy of its predecessors
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by Doug Jamieson
When 20th Century Fox rebooted its seemingly dormant Planet of the Apes franchise in 2011, few expected Rise of the Planet of the Apes to launch three films that not only collectively earned $1.6 billion worldwide but also become one of the best trilogies in cinema history.
While the original Planet of the Apes understandably gets a lot of attention, its four sequels were ambitious, wild films that continuously pushed the boundaries of what this series could be (including people living within the earth, nuclear bombs, and time travel). The recent reboot trilogy, which included Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, and War for the Planet of the Apes, took a serious, grounded approach to these movies, and provided one of the best film series of the 2010s.
And along with his screenwriter Josh Friedman (of the wonderful “Avatar: The Way of Water,” with which you will notice plenty of visual and thematic parallels here), Ball confidently puts forth a film that is exciting and visually articulate in its action setpieces as it is thoughtfully coherent in its plotting.
This is the way to reboot a franchise. Kicking off what I assume will be the next trilogy in the “Planet of the Apes” world, screenwriter Josh Friedman ("Avatar: The Way of Water") gives us a story that, while told from Noa’s perspective, is the closest in feel to the 1968 original with scenes of a human (Freya Allan, TV's 'The Witcher') named Nova, Charlton Heston’s love interest, being led shackled across a beach by apes on horseback (the finale hints that we just may see George Taylor arrive in this one’s sequel).