‘Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’ Review: A Disappointing Step Backward

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“Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” boasts vigorous action and impressive CGI, but the retread of the franchise’s previous ideas is an unexceptional game of monkey see, monkey do.

franchise, and yet for its fourth installment in its current reboot phase , it doesn’t progress so much as stand still. Set generations after 2017’s gets close to the future that was first envisioned by Franklin J. Schaffner’s 1968 original, with apes now civilized and verbose, and humans mostly reduced to primitive muteness. As such, this sequel is an attempt to move forward by returning to its roots—a have-it-both-ways approach that prevents catastrophe but also neuters most of its novelty.

Driven to seek vengeance as well as to rescue his kin, Noa sets out through a tunnel to the forbidden “Valley Beyond,” where he meets orangutang Raka , who teaches him about Caesar—and his belief that apes should stick together and not kill each other—and chooses to accompany him on his quest.

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