Watching a chimpanzee scale a ruined skyscraper is surprisingly gripping. Maybe it’s the intoxicating view of a post-human world — the building heaves with lush greenery not people — or maybe it’s because it’s just kind of cool. And if it does nothing for you, then you can skip this latest, 10th instalment in the Planet of the Apes franchise.
In (deep breath) Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes — somebody, somewhere has got their taxonomy mixed up, you suspect — there’s a lot of tomfoolery and derring-do amidst the shattered and rusting megaliths of the largely vanquished human race. And good fun it is.
