The original was much better.

This was not a remake in any way. It is a completely different story. Wahlberg was okay but he was playing out a completely different story line and there is no valid comparison to Heston who btw played an ape in this one.

The human actors were no better or worse than the apes. The big good looking blonde was awful and was obviously just there for T&A. K. Kristopherson must have wound up on the cutting room floor. His part was little more than a cameo.

As a story of two species at odds I suppose that a message is inevitable but it was weak at best. These apes had none of the gentle nature of the originals. They were crude and surly lot. They had no problem killing each other and in no way were they an improvement over the human species. If you had to pick out a message it might be that all intelligent species tend to be biased and cruel.