La Planète des singes : Le Nouveau Royaume

This movies is basically a passage preparing for the next one. It starts at one point and leave us at the same point.

Okay they are interesting things, but in the end we are looking at the story of Indigenous people getting overrun but modernisation. And just like every other movie of the genre there is an happy ending.

Which in this context does not progress the story.

There are many many many things they could have done to save the story. But they were either afraid or got controlled out of it.

I do recognise amazing work on the visuals, which is why I compare this one to avatar. Good visuals but empty story. And it might actually be avatar 2 . A shell movie using the previous one to sell and trying to be a filler for the next one...

Are there any directors left that have watched a Spielberg movie so they can see how to pace an action adventure movie? Very few movies are actually so well written, acted and directed as to warrant a 2:30+ hr run time. This was not one of them. But with some proper editing, you could make a tight 2:10 movie that keeps things moving along.

The story wasnt bad. The characters werent bad. The acting was good enough. They just took a very long time to get to anything. Then the action picks up for a bit, things get good, it gets exciting and you get another long dull 15-20 min segment. A good editor would bring those segments down to 5-10 min and keep the movie rolling along.

"Kingdom of the planet of apes" 2024 is an exciting and intense movie with stunning FX by means of Motion Capture technology. In a world ruled by apes, a young chimpanzee called Noa (Owen Teague) embarks on a journey to save his clan after a devastating attack. He allies with a human named Mae (Freya Allan), who shares his desire to break free from the apes' opressive regime. Together they navigate treacherous and dangerous landscape of ape and human conflict, ultimately leading a rebellion against ape chief Proximus (Kevin Durand) who's supported by the cunning human Trevathan (William H. Macy). As the dust settles, Noa and Mae contemplate the future of both species, uncertain of whether peaceful coexistence is possible. Here Noa wrestles with his darker instincts and starts his own mythic quest to rescue his tribe and family that is being submitted in slavery and apartheid.

A new entry set many years later the conclusion of 2017' War for the planet of Apes, in which apes communities have grown from when Caesar -Andy Serkis- brought his followers to an oasis, while humans have been submitted to a feral-like existence. The film deals with conflicts between apes and human in which our main protagonists will have to make choices that will define their races alike. Writing credits by Richard Jaffa and Amanda Silver, their screenplay is just clever and including interesting issues about human beings and animals. Similar the previous films, this is a Simian movie to have CGI apes with arm extensions. Starring Owen Teague and Freya Allan are pretty well, but they're unknown for general public, I miss famous actors; however, it is made up for the more known players, William H. Macy and Kevin Durand. Remaining cast formed by Gorilla, Chimpanzees, Orangutans and other simians are fine, in spite of overlong scenes in 'Motion Capture' they are still nicely and compellingly made. The picture was well produced/directed by Wes Ball who previouly made the successful trilogy, "The maze runner".

Leaving aside the classic films in the 60s and 70s, (Planet of apes, Beneath of the planet of the apes, Escape of planet of apes, Conquest and Battle for the planet of the apes), based on Pierre Boulle novel, usually directed by Franklyn J. Schaffner, Ted Post, Don Taylor, J. Lee Thompson and starred by Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Maurice Evans, James Franciscus, Linda Harrison, Natalie Trundy, in 2011 was made a reboot under the technical of Motion picture: "Rise of the planet of apes" , 2011, directed by Rupert Wyatt, starring James Franco, Freida Pinto , Andy Serkis as Caesar. This was followed by " Dawn of the planet of apes" , 2014, by Matt Reeves with Gary Oldman, Keri Russell, Andy Serkis, Jason Clarke, Toby Kebbell, Kirk Acevedo; "War of the planet of apes" , 2017, by Matt Reeves with Andy Serkis, Woody Harrelson, Steve Zahn, Ty Olsson and " Kingdom of the planet of apes", 2024.

I'm bummed I didn't love this. The visuals are as good as ever, both from cinematography to cgi it just looks fantastic. Unfortunately it falls flat mostly everywhere else. A classic hero's journey through the remnants of this universe's apocalyptic landscape is a great idea, but the journey itself is just devoid of sauce. It's bland, and often just feels like we're watching scenes checking off boxes from an adventure story. Like a movie coming out of an assembly line. Character motivations are unclear, the mc's emotional arc is unclear, and overall every idea just doesn't feel fleshed out, even when they almost have a good one. How Caesar's legacy is handled in this movie is almost interesting, but again it is not fleshed out. I will say the movie starts strong, I didn't really start turning on it til I realized how bored I was about halfway through. And that's before the third act really just frustrated me. Almost feels like we're seeing the first draft of a potentially great movie. Still excited to see where the franchise goes, but this new set of movies is off to a rough start for me.

Weakest of all the post 2010 POTA movies imo. Too much ape politics, family life and philosophising and too little else. The original and Beneath the POTA are still by far the best two POTA movies for me, and all done without CGI. You can only be wowed for so long by how well the apes are rendered and for me that ran out of steam 2 movies ago. This movie seems to serve little purpose other than to set up the next one. Couple of nice flash backs to the original (the human hunt horns and the music when they encounter the scarecrows on the bridge) but other than that, an overly long, pretty forgettable movie with a lame story and script.