REVIEW: ‘Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’ isn’t the legacy-quel it strives to be

Spoilers ahead.

The story of Caesar, generations later, still reigns supreme in Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, yet another installment in the Planet of the Apes reboot franchise, to the extent that his namesake and would-be tyrant Proximus Caesar (a particularly terrifying Kevin Durand) wears it like a badge, save for his actual teachings, especially the sacred dictum “ape shall not kill ape,” now reduced to nothing but myth.

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