I didn't like the movie much. I'm a fan of the original 1968 movie with Charlton Heston, so I was interested in how they finished linking the current trilogy up with the events of that movie. For the most part, I thought they did a really good job of doing that, but there are two things I just didn't like...

1) Based on the title of the movie, I was expecting more action. I realize that Planet of the Apes isn't necessarily an "action" franchise - but their war was more a minor skirmish, and prior to that there wasn't a lot to get excited about. Along those lines - the "bad ape" character is the type of comic-relief character you typically see in action movies... so it seemed a bit out of place to me to have that sort of character in a movie that wasn't as action packed as I hoped.

2) My biggest complaint is this... In the original movie, while the apes aren't necessarily "evil", they aren't the good guys either. That movie was in part a morality play on the ethics of slavery, etc., so the slave owners (the monkeys/apes) were the antagonists. No one was cheering for them. In the 2017 movie, for all the great work they did in setting up the story (the plague nearly wiping out humanity, the mutation that rendered the rest mute, the apes escaping to a new home, etc.), it seemed wrong to me that the apes were the characters we are meant to cheer for. It just seemed tonally off to me. The apes were the heroes of this movie, and I think something should have happened to knock them down a peg or two on the morality scale to better set up the civilization they eventually create.

The CGI was great though.