The latest installment of the 10-movie Planet of the Apes movies, "Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes" is another one in the series that seems more like a compilation of scenes with Apes and Humans, running for their lives, trying to kill each other with reminders of the first movie, "Planet of the Apes", released in 1968. This new movie is supposed to be a prequel of the original movie and there are several references at the end of this movie, inside a cave that have many reminders of the original film.
There is nothing in these two hours that we all have not seen before, with a story that seemed to go nowhere and an ending that at best was illogical. From the original story, Apes are now the intelligent species with the implication that this was caused by a nuclear war. In this film, there is mention of a man-made virus that destroyed the intelligence and speaking skills of Humans and made Apes intelligent - not a nuclear war.
One of the main characters in this movie is named Nova, who can talk, but the Nova character in the original Planet of the Apes could not talk. So the woman in this film named Nova, is by coincidence not the woman named Nova in the original movie that is supposed to be the sequel to this movie? This is another example of this illogical screenplay.
This movie has mostly unknown actors, with the exception of William H. Macy who plays a human named Trevathan - who is part of a scene with Nova at the end of this story, that for me, made absolutely no sense.
This movie is also way too long at 2 hours and 25 minutes, and way too boring and slow in too many places.
As far as so many Planet of the Apes movies, there should be a documentary made about the life of any actor who has to endure hours of makeup application and removal, every day for 12+ hours a day, wearing an extremely hot costume for months. All of these movies have always been a bonanza for makeup artists for decades since the release of the original film. I would find a documentary about the making of these Ape movies more interesting than the majority of the movies themselves - including this one.
The Rotten Tomatoes ratings for this movie are too high 80%, with my rating 70% and a marginal pass.
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