Yahoo Movies Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes lands strong Rotten Tomatoes rating
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is in cinemas now, and the film has already landed a high Rotten Tomatoes score.
Set 300 years after the events of War for the Planet of the Apes, the film follows young ape Noa (Owen Teague), as he embarks on a journey that makes him question the future for both apes and humans alike as well as doubt his own past.
Noa joins forces with human Nova (Freya Allan) against ape king Proximus Caesar (Kevin Durand), who plans to use weapons and lost human technologies to enslave other clans.
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At the time of writing, the film sits on an impressive 84% score on Rotten Tomatoes from 104 reviews, certifying it Fresh.
The Critics Consensus reads: "Carving out a new era for The Planet of the Apes with lovable characters and rich visuals, Kingdom doesn't take the crown as best of the franchise but handily justifies its continued reign."
Below is a round-up of some of the reviews:
Digital Spy
"The movie might not have Caesar, but Wes Ball has ensured that his spirit remains in both the storyline and the overall movie. There's substance here to go with the visual style and big-screen spectacle, a potent mix that worked so well for the previous trilogy."
Empire
"It's less action-heavy than the last trilogy and inevitably more ape-centric, but this is a promisingly chewy start for the latest series of simian thrillers."
The Guardian
"The film becomes rather jumbled and preposterous by the very end, but not before some perfectly good action sequences, and the CGI ape faces are very good. This franchise has held up an awful lot better than others; now it should evolve to something new."
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"Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is such a rewardingly cerebral journey because of its refusal to dictator-shame its villain or offer a clear alternative for the apes forced to serve at his mercy."
"Kingdom doesn’t reach the rattling grandeur of Dawn. But it's another worthy installment in a series that is pretty much unparalleled in contemporary times."
"By the time the demands of big-budget spectacle take over in the final act, a film that initially stands out from the pack in imagining a different perspective of the world ends up looking all too disappointingly like everything else in the current mega-budget cinema landscape."
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is out now in cinemas.
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