What she says in the review is true (I actually saw it this weekend — not my idea, believe me). However, keep in mind that some trendy, “humans are going to kill themselves” message has been in pretty much EVERY Planet of the Apes movie. In Beneath the Planet of the Apes, we had the humans who destroyed the world with a nuclear bomb (a quaint thought now, isn’t it?). In Escape from the Planet of the Apes, we had pollution destroying the world. Even in the original, man destroyed his own society. In the good Planet of the Apes movies, you could put that aside and enjoy the show. In the bad ones — like this — you simply have a boring movie.
One underlying question is — why do the liberals who run Hollywood feel so strongly that they have to inject these messages into entertainment????
Why do so many TV shows have homosexual characters, for example? And why are these characters always portrayed in a positive light?
Why are clergy often portrayed negatively in TV shows and movies?
A good question to me is why do the Hollywood idiots do this when they make movies? Just make a movie, and skip the social/political messaging.
It is so blatantly obvious that I don’t see how even a lefty can miss it -
the reason that humans get dominated is because the apes are physically superior.
Without guns to even the odds, the weak are always dominated and oppressed by the strong.
Do they not see this? Do they think it’s actually a GOOD thing for the strong to dominate the weak?
There was a Planet of the Apes marathon on ScyFy this weekend. You are right. You forgot the one where there was a fight between the apes and the one ape wanted all the guns destroyed because they are evil. So what? They are just dumb entertainment. lol