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Warning : This clause stop spoiler forKingdom of the Planet of the Apes(2024 ) .
The 2017 filmWar for the Planet of the Apesfamously ends with the death of Caesar ( Andy Serkis ) . Its long - awaited follow - up , Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes , wisely open with Caesar ’s funeral before jump onwards in time “ many generations later on . ”
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For much of the flick , Caesar ’s absence seizure is deeply felt . viewer quickly learn that , in the year since his pass , the ape that have come after him have splintered off into different kinship group — some of which are more peaceful and stray than others . His teaching have mostly been either forgotten or perverted by powerfulness - hungry drawing card like Proximus Caesar ( Kevin Durand ) .
Life after Caesar
The picture show discover a suitable successor to Caesar , though , in Noa ( Owen Teague ) , a young chimpanzee heroic to turn up himself . When Proximus ’ copycat followers raid his peaceful hamlet one night and kill his father right in front of him before capturing the other members of his clan , Noa set out to find his surviving acquaintance and household appendage and bring them back home . Along the way , he ascertain more about Caesar ’s teachings and leading from Raka ( Peter Macon ) , a impertinent orangutan , and forges an improbable alliance with Mae ( Freya Allan ) , a deceptively impudent human being who knows how to get into a vault that Proximus is intent on bring out into .
Raka meets a tragic expiry when Noa and Mae are captured by Proximus ’ apes . Noa , nonetheless , refuse to give up on his commission and brush aside the warnings of his fellow tribe members , whom he ’s reunited with at Proximus ’ coastline realm . He , Mae , and his two closest protagonist , Soona ( Lydia Peckham ) and Anaya ( Travis Jeffery ) , on the QT institute explosive charges along the dam - like paries that protects the entrance to Proximus ’ man - made hurdle from the Pacific Ocean ’s waves . The four then go up to a secret , cliffside entrance that leads directly into the vault itself . Once inside , Mae secure a hard cause containing info that could help humans talk to each other again .
A rebellion is born, and a new war is ignited
The quaternary ’s program is briefly thwarted when they launch the hurdle ’s door to find Proximus already waiting for them on the other side , with Noa ’s female parent held surety . Mae , do-or-die to keep the bank vault ’s human weaponry out of Proximus ’ hands , ignores Noa ’s pleas to wait until his female parent and Friend are out of the line of fire and detonates the burster they ’d plant the night before . She escapes just before Noa and every other ape inside the vault is squeeze to flee further into it for invalidate drowning beneath the oncoming wave . Noa manages to outsmart Sylva ( Eka Darville ) , his father ’s murderer and Proximus ’ most firm enforcer , but find himself catch in a cliffside fistfight with Proximus immediately after he give it out of the vault awake .
Rather than giving up and defer down before Proximus , Noa cry on the aid of his clan ’s still - firm bird of Jove companion , who teem and peck at at Proximus . The ambitious ape drawing card plummets to his death only moments later — giving Noa the prospect to eventually head his female parent , Friend , and fellow clan members back home . Kingdom of the Planet of the Apesdoesn’t cut to lightlessness there , though . or else , the film tamp down in a melancholic , yet affirmative epilogue in which Mae pays one last visit to Noa . The latter expect Mae whether or not she think human being and apes will ever be able-bodied to live peacefully together . She enjoin that she does n’t fuck . In response , Noa give Mae Raka ’s necklace as a monitor of not only Caesar ’s belief in human and ape coexistence , but also the compassion that their admirer showed both of them .
How does Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes end?
In its final minutes , Kingdom of the Planet of the Apesfollows Mae and Noa as they part ways . The latter contract Soona to see a telescope he ’d discovered earlier in the film . Mae , meanwhile , trip to a outback human outpost where she redeem the hard driveway she retrieve from Proximus ’ coastline bank vault , which arrest long - lost satellite computer code that give her and the other homo there the ability to convey with other outpost for the first time . In a astonishingly knock-down editorial flourish , Kingdom of the Planet of the Apesthen ends with a serial of cuts showing Mae and Noa looking up at the same sky from wholly different locating — both incertain of what the future holds for them .
The movie , therefore , concludes with Noa both rising to become a new , Caesar - alike figure among his fellow emulator and helping Mae potentially fire up the arc for a next state of war between them and the worldly concern ’s surviving human being . It ’s an ending that at the same time pave the fashion for future sequel and occupies a similarly complex worked up blank space as the Planet of the Apes franchise ’s previous three moving-picture show .
Like Caesar before him , Noa will continue to have to forecast with his self-contradictory desire for peace treaty and his distrust of the humans he has no wish to harm . Whether or not he ’ll have better destiny doing so than Caesar remains to be seen . Either way , it should come as welcome newsworthiness to Planet of the Apes fans everywhere that the series has managed to yet again deliver a new installation that is better and more interesting than it has any right to be .
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apesis now playing in dramatic art .
