Wauuu I am disappointed in Matt Reeves. And this dude got the helm of The Batman. Yikess....

List of dumb things that should have been reconsidered in the script:

[SPOILERS] [PLEASE ADD IF YOU HAVE MORE]

• Guard locks himself (with keys to their shackles) in an enclosure of angry apes to do something he easily could do from outside the enclosure in safety

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• The Colonel goes himself to the Apes lair in his second attack on them, because???

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• The Men goes back and captures all the apes in their third attack, to build a wall against helicopters…. I repeat; HELICOPTERS. And likely against an army which is just a couple of days away. Sure Woody, that is worth the trouble and risk indeed. Not.

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• The Men who just got their asses kicked by the Apes goes back to the Apes lair, while really their attention is on a coming army of attacking men, and yet they deem it is necessary to attack and capture apes for construction work.… so the men are essentially thinking; "let us capture Apes who we know can beat us (so we probably cannot catch them) to build a wall we have no time to build and a wall we do not really need".

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• Girl's dad (or protector or liberator) is killed and she cares less about it. And the next day she cries her eyes out over the death of an ape who gave her one flower... and who also helped kill her dad btw.

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• 100% of the winning army storms the exploding fortress of The Colonel (did we learn nothing from Batman Rises??)

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• 100% of the wining and well equipped army got wiped out in an avalanche… yep, this happened. No, really.

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• ONE avalanche killed off the Human race... without the Apes this was bound to happen. So really it is "Planet of the Avalanche".

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• Caesar travels with his people across a great distance to never attend his wound from the arrow and dies because of it. Smart Ape?

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• No ape sees that Caesar is bloody and fatally wounded in their travels. Guessing he is no hugger

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• The virus takes humans ability to speak away…. Yes, fair enough. But come on, it should make them gradually dumber or similar. The speech effect which apparently happened within the blink of an eye (not gradual), is well…. show us to de-evolutionize in a more credible way, just saying.

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• Soldier man who was spared by the hero and who the movie shows us is conflicted through the whole story is given the perfect moment to show mercy, and is then blown away by an redeeming Ape who was a dick the whole time.

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• The Ape who was a dick the whole time is having a change of heart while he stands next to a giant machine gun, and who notices a leaking gas tank that can end the bad men in one blow…. And then decides to stop one solider in his track with one grenade (next rewrite of the script should have him overpower the machine gun and go nuts until taken out…)

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• Was not about a War for the planet of the Apes. Was about forced construction work, while someone else is fighting a war for some evil lair.

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• The plot was a revenge story that puts our hero in the middle of a a conflict situation, which he has little to no biff in and no influence on and from which he escapes in the end.... this is the story. The conclusion to the Trilogi. Nothing wrong with that, but hardly epic.

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CONCLUSION: Matt Reeves, whoever you are or whatever you are… a skilled story teller you are not.