Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

Before watching the latest Planet of the Apes instalment, I prepared myself by watching the previous 3 as I'm pretty certain I'd never seen War and given I got asked me if I wanted to continue playback, I'd only watched some of Dawn. Out of the 3, I still like Rise - I've watched it many times now. I think I prefer War over Dawn, if only because it had a slightly more interesting plot and it feels like a proper sequel.

I also liked Kingdom, although it wasn't at all what I expected. This is mostly down to the synopsis I saw for it, which better described a non-existant movie that occurred between War and Kingdom that talked about the apes leaving their new home and expanding outwards. That had already happened by the time Kingdom starts and a great many different ape settlements have sprung up in the 300 years between the two movies. I liked the idea that our protagonists' clan has formed a strong affinity with eagles, rearing and training them from birth to be their allies in the sky. I wonder if we'll see other clans with other animal bonds in the future films?

The main niggle I have with all the sequels so far, is they're all basically telling the same sort of story. It is all about the pursuit of power in some form or other. Which is very definitely a human trait, but is it an ape one? Are the stories they're writing really just about humanity in ape form? I don't know...hopefully the future films will focus on some other aspect?