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KINGDOM OF THE PLANET OF THE APES – John Paesano
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is the fourth installment of the rebooted Planet of the Apes film series, inspired by the novels of Pierre Boulle and the 1960s film series originally starring Charlton Heston. It is set several hundred years after the time of Caesar, the leader of a community of increasingly intelligent apes who in the first film, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, was given increased intelligence and the ability to speak after being infected by a genetically modified virus intended to cure Alzheimer’s disease, but which accidentally killed a large portion of the world’s human population instead. Through the second and third films – Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, and War for the Planet of the Apes – Caesar struggled to create a stable ape society while trying to broker an uneasy truce with the few humans who remained; he eventually died at the end of War for the Planet of the Apes, leaving the future of ape society uncertain. Read more…
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