Very bad movie. All 3 parts of this trilogy declined in quality as they went

I re-watched trilogy in 3 days. 1 movie per night. And it was so noticeable how quality of these movies declined with each part.

Usually we have 1-st movie to set up. Then there is middle movie. And then 3-rd one is big spectacle and closure. This time trilogy peaked with first movie. Then second was declining. And third was just awful. It was so boring that I wanted to fast-forward few times.

First movie (James Franco one) stands out as classic. Everything was amazing in it. Script, cast, pacing. I still remembered very well what was going on. I watched 2 and 3 movie in theaters and had no recollection of script at all. So forgettable it was.

Second movie was about electricity and dam. And lead actors declined from James Franco to Jason Clarke who is just not a leading actor. He was solid but boring. Supporting cast was as un-memorable. People still ask why James Franco did tot return to second part. But no one asks why Jason Clarke and his family did not return to third part and where they are. Because no one cares. When someone mentioned Malcolm here I had to look up who that was.

Then we have third movie where Woody Harrelson plays some Evil Colonel. Who is evil because he is crazy. Who kills Caesars wife and son for no reason and then vanishes into the waterfall. And we don't give a crap because movie never gave them personalities and all apes look the same and it's even hard to single out any. And Caesar and buddies go to some camp where his fellow apes conveniently are imprisoned because Crazy Woody needs them to move stones because his commanders are to get him and fire. And he doesn't want to be fired. And that's the plot. How on earth all Caesars apes were imprisoned and brought to camp as Caesar himself was basically running to that camp also and his apes were going into different direction?

One second Colonel wants to kill apes. Then he wants to imprison them to move stones...

It's like they had great idea to start if off with how virus was created. And then didn't know what to do with other 2 movies. And by the time third one started they were creatively bankrupt. So here comes crazy Colonel and Stones.

The only interesting part of this movie was revelation that Virus mutated and Dumbed Down people. And this is how we transition to original movies where people were really dumb. Because here we see that after 15 years they are still fine. But if virus mutated then it makes sense.

They really should have done 4-th movie.