tl;dr not worth watching for itself but is fine background noise for when you are doing something else
Not that the franchise was ever better than "not unwatchable" but this one came out just below that threshold.
A multi century time jump after the last one, peaceful ape tribe is doing peaceful ape stuff when they get bumrushed by warlike ape tribe and conscripted into being their helots. The main hero ape from peaceful tribe has to find a way to free them.
I'm probably not the right audience but chimpanzee politics doesn't exactly get my blood flowing. The CG was impressive but the CG is impressive everywhere nowadays. There was the obligatory human/ape interaction where they had to, yet again, point out how humans are the really uncivilized and the apes are better.
It is 2.5 hours and a slog and I watched it over 4 days, mostly in the background while scrolling twitter or eating lunch.
No obvious wokeness beyond mild anti-humanism which is almost obligatory. I thought the woman human character was exhibiting mary-sueness until it is sort-of explained how she is so knowledgeable.
The best thing it has going for it is CG eagles are cool.
Kingdom isn't as strong as it's first trilogy was, however it's still a good movie. The story is pretty generic while setting up the larger world of this trilogy.
I think the actors are great in it. The motion capture technology is great and the actors' faces really come through in their performances.
Proximus, is pretty much King Louie, looking to gain power using human ideas and technology. He's not the best antagonist but he is also probably more of a low level boss.
The movie does have a strong element of human and apes not being able to peacefully co-exist because each would want to be dominant. But it also shows each is united in their thirst for knowledge and the wonderment of the universe.
I liked the movie. I really enjoyed the rebooted trilogy. I would agree it's a bit long and has a decided deliberate pace.