Kicking off an intended second modern trilogy, Kingdom of
the Planet of the Apes is a movie that appears to start small and builds
towards a big climax. Yet there’s more to it than that, a real craftsmanship to
every frame, a sense that this is a deeper, broader movie than the title may
suggest. People might scoff at such a thought but regardless of whether you get
the story or even the concept this is a very well posed movie that easily
betters most other films in any iteration since the classic 1968 debut to which
it owes a certain debt.
