I was born in 1987. That means I wasn't there when the first Planet of the Apes (1968) was released. Even so, I was mesmerized the first time I watched it.
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes feels to me just like all the most recent Jurassic Park movies. It's not that they suck, per se. But the first movies set the bar so high - both in visual effects and plot - that, at some point in the franchise, movies just become unwatcheable. I call it the "disgusting point".
For Jurassic Park, it happened in Jurassic World (2015). That means its previous movie - Jurassic Park III (2001) - was somehow watcheable. Die Hard reached that point at A Good Day to Die Hard (2013).
In the Planet of the Apes franchise, disgusting point was reached in 2024. Kingdom is not good. New characters stories are paper-thin. Too much CGI, too little acting, too no good plot.
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes feels to me just like all the most recent Jurassic Park movies. It's not that they suck, per se. But the first movies set the bar so high - both in visual effects and plot - that, at some point in the franchise, movies just become unwatcheable. I call it the "disgusting point".
For Jurassic Park, it happened in Jurassic World (2015). That means its previous movie - Jurassic Park III (2001) - was somehow watcheable. Die Hard reached that point at A Good Day to Die Hard (2013).
In the Planet of the Apes franchise, disgusting point was reached in 2024. Kingdom is not good. New characters stories are paper-thin. Too much CGI, too little acting, too no good plot.