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In Theaters Now
- 2024
- PG-13
- Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
- 2 h 25 m
- 2024
- PG-13
- Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
- 2 h 25 m
Summary Set several generations in the future following Caesar’s reign, apes are the dominant species living harmoniously and 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 that he has known about the past and to...
Directed By: Wes Ball
Written By: Josh Friedman, Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver
In Theaters Now
- 2024
- PG-13
- Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
- 2 h 25 m
- 2024
- PG-13
- Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
- 2 h 25 m
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
66
7.4
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Summary Set several generations in the future following Caesar’s reign, apes are the dominant species living harmoniously and 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 that he has known about the past and to...
Directed By: Wes Ball
Written By: Josh Friedman, Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 56 Critic Reviews
66
63% Positive
35 Reviews
35 Reviews
34% Mixed
19 Reviews
19 Reviews
4% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 56 Critic Reviews
66
63% Positive
35 Reviews
35 Reviews
34% Mixed
19 Reviews
19 Reviews
4% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
This ripping action-adventure features stellar effects and a superb lead performance from Owen Teague as a timid simian who must rescue his clan from the clutches of a warlike tribe.
There is beauty among the terror and an element of anxious unpredictability thrashing our characters like the waves that crash against the cliffs. But the deft spectacle would be nothing without the characters and performances.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 83 User Ratings
7.4
82% Positive
68 Ratings
68 Ratings
10% Mixed
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
8% Negative
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 83 User Ratings
7.4
82% Positive
68 Ratings
68 Ratings
10% Mixed
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
8% Negative
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
Kingdom provides a rock-solid foundation for a new series of Apes films, leaving the titular planet with its most interesting status quo to date.
Though the movie is too long, I was more gratified than not to sink into its relatively old-fashioned dramatic restraint.
Despite its impressive attention to craft—including exquisite motion-capture work by the groundbreaking digital-design studio WETA—Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes never fully establishes its reason for being.
It’s the ideal third act for a Planet of the Apes movie––whether you want to sit through an extensive, near-90 minute journey that represents everything wrong with dystopian world-building in contemporary blockbusters to get there, however, is up to you.
Trying to overwhelm the audience with spectacle, as “Kingdom” attempts to do, is a sorry substitute for the detailed characters and thoughtful conflicts that populate prior entries in the series.
I'd give this movie all the 10s in the world. A great start to a new trilogy. And the ending is very intriguing!
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I have quite a lot of problems with this newest Apes movie, i thought that the first 30 minutes was pretty boring, the story was just not as compelling as the three previous film, not as engaging and not as well structured as the previous one and that's not saying that the previous movies were perfect in any way, i just feel like they could actually showed more without adding another duration, one good interesting character that they kill way too soon, the villain Proximus could've been introduced more well and showed more so that we can actually be terrified by him but unfortunately that's not the case, he's still good but not as terrifying as he should be, some of the editing was weak, and that's basically all of my problem with the film, the good stuff in the film was of course the CGI, special and visual effects in the film was incredible, the slower dialogue parts are mostly the most engaging part of the film, all the characters while some wasn't perfectly used, they were good characters, Freya Allan was ok, and Noa i think was a perfect sort of Caesar next leader of the franchise, the rest of the supporting characters was good too, and the ending was really opening some new continuation story that i definitely more interested and excited for, very strong ending that i really like, so overall it's still a mixed feeling mostly as i really do wanna loved this movie but it is a slow burn Apes movie with a problematic stuff in it and not as amazing of a story as before, but not bad, and it still filled with amazing technical stuff, good new characters, good performances, and decent story, i do believe and hope that i will like the next one even more than this one.
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Production Company
Disney Studios Australia,
Jason T. Reed Productions,
Oddball Entertainment,
Twentieth Century Fox
Release Date May 10, 2024
Duration 2 h 25 m
Rating PG-13
Tagline No One Can Stop the Reign