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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

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