Battle for the Planet of the Apes

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Battle for the Planet of the Apes

G

Released Jun 15, 1973

1h 32m

Sci-Fi

Action

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"Battle for the Planet of the Apes" is the final chapter in the sci-fi movie series. In this chapter, a tribute of human atomic bomb mutations are out to make life miserable for the peaceful ape tribe. The story is told primarily in flashback with the opening and closing taking place in the year 2670.

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Critics Consensus

Bereft of bright ideas and visually shabby, Battle for the Planet of the Apes takes a celebrated franchise and blows it all up -- the maniacs!

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Variety

Considering the usual fate of sequels, it's not so much that this final effort [from a story by Paul Dehn] is limp, but that the previous four pix maintained for so long a good quality level.

Jun 4, 2007

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Time Out

[It] seems reluctant to use the potentials for astute comic strip philosophy that all the other films revelled in to a greater or lesser extent.

Jan 26, 2006

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

Battle looks like the last gap of a dying series, a movie made simply to wring the dollars out of any remaining ape fans.

Rated: 2/4

Oct 23, 2004

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Dick Lochte

Los Angeles Free Press

The problem here is basically one of script, though the lowering of production values has taken its toll.

Dec 31, 2019

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Zaki Hasan

Zaki's Corner

Some solid ideas at its center expounding on the series' omnipresent themes of race relations and destiny vs. free will, but is hobbled by its too-apparent dime-store budget and a singular lack of ambition.

Oct 31, 2018

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Chris Alexander

Alexander On Film

Battle ends with a deep sense of melancholy and grace, a timeline defying notion that Caesar's decency in fact altered the course of history.

Sep 17, 2018

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Ads T

The least among the original Planet of The Apes movies, this feels more like a routine and under-developed TV special than a decent conclusion to the franchise.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/07/25

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David C

No es mi favorita es muy mala el final es malo aunque los sonidos de voz son raros

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

01/06/25

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Nos 4

APE SHALL NEVER KILL APE APE HAS KILLED APE

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/06/25

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Cristopher S

Una historia que no se logra entender del todo y pierde su atractivo mientras la película avanza

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

01/04/25

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Edward R

I was enjoying it until the final low budget battle. Gov Kolp was a bad character. So was the evil gorilla whose name I don’t remember.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

08/27/24

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Christopher R

While Battle may suffer from a low budget, it represents a more than adequate conclusion to the original Apes pentalogy. The acting and writing of the characters is strong. In particular Roddy McDowall brilliantly portrays a Caesar at a crossroads in his leadership between choosing the highest of human -- or in this case simian -- ideals and the depravity of a dystopian cynicism.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

08/05/24

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Synopsis

"Battle for the Planet of the Apes" is the final chapter in the sci-fi movie series. In this chapter, a tribute of human atomic bomb mutations are out to make life miserable for the peaceful ape tribe. The story is told primarily in flashback with the opening and closing taking place in the year 2670.

Director: J. Lee Thompson
Producer: Arthur P. Jacobs
Screenwriter: Paul Dehn, John William Corrington, Joyce Hooper Corrington
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Production Co: Twentieth Century Fox, Apjac International
Rating: G
Genre: Sci-Fi, Action
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 15, 1973, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 1, 2013
Runtime: 1h 32m
Sound Mix: Mono
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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