{"id":28543,"date":"2024-05-08T12:03:49","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T16:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/entertainment\/kingdom-of-the-planet-of-the-apes-review-hail-caesar\/08\/05\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-05-08T12:03:49","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T16:03:49","slug":"kingdom-of-the-planet-of-the-apes-review-hail-caesar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/entertainment\/kingdom-of-the-planet-of-the-apes-review-hail-caesar\/08\/05\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes\u2019 Review: Hail, Caesar"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Visual cues indicate that Proximus Caesar\u2019s kingdom is modeled partly on the Roman Empire, with its colonizing influence and its intention to sweep the riches of the ancient human world \u2014 its history, its labor, its technology \u2014 into its own coffers. By telling his version of Caesar\u2019s legacy, Proximus Caesar makes the apes believe they are part of some mighty, unstoppable force of history.<\/p>\n

But of course, history has a habit of repeating itself, whether it\u2019s ancient Rome or Egypt, and in Proximus Caesar\u2019s proclamations one detects a bit of Ozymandias<\/a>: Look on his works, ye mighty, and despair! \u201cKingdom of the Planet of the Apes\u201d is set in the future, but like a lot of science fiction \u2014 \u201cDune,\u201d for instance, or \u201cBattlestar Galactica,\u201d or Walter Miller\u2019s \u201cA Canticle for Leibowitz\u201d \u2014 there\u2019s a knowing sense that all this has happened before, and all this will happen again.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what makes \u201cKingdom of the Planet of the Apes\u201d powerful, in the end. It probes how the act of co-opting idealisms and converting them to dogmas has occurred many times over. What\u2019s more, it points directly at the immense danger of romanticizing the past, imagining that if we could only reclaim and reframe and resurrect history, our present problems would be solved. Golden ages were rarely actually golden, but history is littered with leaders who tried to make people believe they were anyhow. It\u2019s a great way to make people do their bidding.<\/p>\n

There are some hints near the end of \u201cKingdom of the Planet of the Apes\u201d of what might be next for the franchise, should it be fated to continue. But the uneasy fun of the series is we already know what happens, eventually; it was right there in the first movie, and the warning it poses remains bleak.<\/p>\n

At the start of the 1968 film, the star Charlton Heston explains, \u201cI can\u2019t help thinking somewhere in the universe there has to be something better than man.\u201d You might have expected, from a movie like this, that \u201cbetter\u201d species would be these apes. But it turns out we might have to keep looking.<\/p>\n

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes<\/strong>
Rated PG-13, for scenes of peril and woe and a couple of funny, mild swear words. Running time: 2 hours 25 minutes. In theaters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Visual cues indicate that Proximus Caesar’s kingdom is modeled partly on the Roman Empire, with its colonizing influence and its intention to