Battle for the Planet of the Apes Reviews
The problem here is basically one of script, though the lowering of production values has taken its toll.
| Dec 31, 2019
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
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
Battle...is where the dwindling budgets of the film in this series finally manage to score a fatal hit.
| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 19, 2017
Unnecessary sequel is nonetheless entertaining; Roddy Mcdowall back in simian shape.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 22, 2008
Aside from Severn Darden, who relishes his lip-smacking heavy character, the cast seems disinterested; even series stalwart Roddy McDowall looks bored.
| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 4, 2007
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
An okay finale.
| Original Score: B | Apr 9, 2007
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 22, 2006
[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
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 3, 2005
surprisingly entertaining
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 29, 2005
Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 18, 2005
Battle looks like the last gap of a dying series, a movie made simply to wring the dollars out of any remaining ape fans.
| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 23, 2004
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 15, 2004
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 24, 2004
The bluntest, cheapest and worst of the 'Apes' movies.
| Original Score: 1/10 | Sep 11, 2003
Schmaltzy doesn't get much better...
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 11, 2003
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 21, 2003
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 26, 2002