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Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes Lacks the Power of Its Predecessors
The apes look amazing, and this franchise still has a lot on its mind.
The digital fur and hardened skin on the characters of the latest installment in the Planet of the Apes saga are so vividly rendered that at certain moments, we forget we’re watching computer-generated visual effects and lose ourselves in texture. The small army of apes that then invades and burns down his village, we soon learn, is after the owner of that blanket, who turns out to be a young scavenging human named Mae (Freya Allan). The apes live in lush, overgrown villages that used to be cities; they scramble up stunning cliffs that once were skyscrapers, the sun setting against high green hills rising from blasted cityscapes.
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