Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes: Not a bad film, but it wasted a lot of time to get to the villain. Proximus; not the mc but the real star of the movie. *spoilers
The best trait about the film is how it honors Caesar and Proximus’ argument against humans and how Mae proved his point multiple times- and yet despite him being right, he was not better for Apekind neither.
He wanted those weapons to prevent apes from being put back in cages (namely himself) but seeing how he treated his own before the weapons, he’d be no better after he got them.
Proximus is likely the reason why most people are going to see it, the guy calls himself “Proximus Caesar” with a crown on his head was definitely my reason to watch.
He’s in maybe 30% of the film, PAST the halfway mark. I shit you not he’s barely in it.
That’s good for Noa because it gives him time to flesh out & develop, but an otherwise total waste of a good actor and antagonist character with so much potential who literally CARRIED the marketing.
We don’t even find out where he came from.
The clips in the trailer, screencaps, and clips are the majority of his content. VERY VERY bad decision.
The one thing they got right beside how he’s portrayed, mannerisms and the fact that he’s right “Humans can’t be trusted”, is the fact that they did NOT blatantly kill him, it was very vague, we didn’t see him die. He fell in the ocean, he’s not dead.
How he was taken out was a little corny (Very Disney) especially when NONE of his goons made it or followed the rest to the top. but ONLY the Eagle Clan & somehow the kids too (convenient)
If they wanted to impress? Proximus would’ve won as far as getting the weapons but Mae, Noa & the clan still get away. Mae can still do what she was appointed to do but Proximus is now a bigger threat.
Mae was the weakest part of the movie for me, she impressed me at times (that rear chokehold being one example) but she was meh. Should’ve gotten an older, experienced actress with some more career mileage, some more charisma. Something.
The ending is a bit confusing as well, that virus was clearly not as potent as originally thought if what happened was truly the case for some humans. AND on top of that the Sat-coms still work? Sheesh that is mad convenient for a timeskip of SEVERAL GENERATIONS later, lmfao.
Felt like a tame hybrid of “Dawn” & “War” in one movie.
Compared to Proximus, we got a lot more of The Colonel in “War” & way earlier, at least that’s how it read. The earliest we got of him was hearing his voice over a radio-com. If Proximus got more screen-time than Colonel AND he won?? The movie would’ve been goat status Day 1. Guaranteed.
This was a missed opportunity to hit the ground running out the gate with something risky, especially for a 4th installment in this new run. This needed something different.
