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Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024)
Good looking filler movie... avatar but with apes
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...
Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)
Better visuals, poorer stories
Avatar is recycling itself.
We took the same and we start over.
Actually, would have probably been ok if the story was exactly the same. But a few additions to it added confusion actually.
It will still be a good experience.
But make no mistake, it's a no brainer.
(Your brain was left at home....)
Of course it's complicated for a movie to live up to its predecessor. And continue a story line left 13 years ago.
Which I would argue the first 10 minute do a good job of.
And then everything falls appart.
Probably the movie tried to do too many things.
And when you have too many good ideas it becomes a mess.