…even for a dystopian fantasy, Conquest of the Planets of the Apes is bleak, uncompromising stuff…

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 18, 2022

I'm tempted to comment that reports of the Hollywood film's death have been exaggerated. It is alive and well and flourishing on the Planet of the Apes.

| Jan 7, 2020

The darkest and most violent chapter in a series that had fairly distinguished itself already with its dark subject matter and disturbing imagery.

| Oct 31, 2018

It's a mean, oppressive film that feels exhaustively claustrophobic, its action centered on a sterile city block and scattered, computer-soaked offices and labs.

| Sep 17, 2018

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 4, 2008

A hard-edged thriller featuring a sleekly sinister look and a disturbing tone that's quite different from any of the other films in the series.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 4, 2007

The Planet of the Apes series takes an angry turn in the fourth entry.

| Jun 4, 2007

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 7, 2007

Lead-footed and erratic.

| Original Score: C | Apr 9, 2007

Dismally lurid stuff, ham-fistedly directed and low on credibility.

| Jun 24, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 15, 2005

J. Lee Thompson's direction furiously propels the action in a compact chromium-and-glass setting -- and wait till you see that last battle royal.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 10, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 27, 2004

The Conquest of the Planet of the Apes is the fourth in this series of movies that began with Planet of the Apes and it also is the least of them.

| Nov 20, 2003

The best of the series. Apes in modern day (well, modern for then). Like all great sci-fi, has moral implications.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 14, 2003

Surprisingly entertaining.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 13, 2003

The message is that passing power from one to another does not change the essential nature of power. Rather, power contaminates the person (or ape) who wields it.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 15, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 26, 2002

Proof that mediocre sequels are hardly a new sensantion.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 26, 2002

This bleak chapter of the Apes saga strived to echo the sentiments of many of its fellow films released that year. Not easy to do in a cheap monkey mask.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 1, 2001