To be honest i dont understand why this is getting the amount of hate it’s getting. It might be because all the characters are brand new, and well everyone’s upset that ceaser is gone but we should appreciate this movie way more. The time it took for this movie and the amount of effort put into it should be accounted for. You also have to remember that this is a whole NEW trilogy. You have to give it a chance since this is only really the beginning of a new plot and characters, whom throughout the next movies you should see more development through. And the characters aren't even bad! Same with the plot! May has her own interesting story. This whole time she was really only trying to save her kind and by doing so she was semi villan and semi hero since she did help Noa sometimes, but then at the end she almost killed his clan and had lied to him multiple times. Shes a good neutral character and a great actor! We definitely should be seeing more of her in the next movie. Noa is a good character too. Hes almost like ceaser but his, personality and looks are different. But they both had the same goal. To protect their family/pack. In this movie Noa worked on saving his pack and learning more about ecos (humans) and realizing the whole backstory to them. (Thanks to the orangutan whom i have forgotten his name..) Noa became a leader at the end like Ceaser had at the end of Rise of Plant of The Apes when he got all his apes to a new place and saved them from humans. We can already see his character forming quite well, like ceaser had. And at the end of the movie, we almost get a conflict for the next movie. May ended up helping humans connect together all around the world. This will obviously cause chaos between apes and humans and will have to put Noa up to the test for being a leader and protecting his clan. So yeah, even though this movie might’ve dragged a little, it was still good and I see great potential for the next movie. So like i said, give this movie a chance and understand that this movie isn't suppose to satisfy you yet since its only the introduction to a brand new storyline.