Just perfect...

Fresh and Exciting

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

I can not say it's a crap, and in some way it rounds and gives conclusion to franchise, but at the other hand, it completely ruined overall impression of this franchise. In my opinion, they should have stayed on original movie and everything else should have been released in form of TV series, or at least they could have give up on this last one. I am glad I saw how this saga ends, but at the same time overall impression is spoiled. I don't know, it's hard for me to be objective about this. Honestly, I do not recommend it. From this perspective, after seeing them all, to those who did not see this franchise I suggest to watch just original movie and maybe first sequel and leave it on that. First movie leaves impression that lasts forever. Do not let sequels spoil it to you.5,5/10

The fifth and final of the original Planet of the Apes series. In between the last film and this one, there's been a nuclear holocaust and the remaining humans are slaves of the apes. Caesar (Roddy McDowall) tries to rule in peace but gorilla General Aldo (Claude Akins) wants to eradicate all humans. While searching the ruins of a city for recordings of his parents, Caesar comes across mutant humans who attack the apes. This leads to inevitable conflict between Caesar and Aldo as to how best to deal with this new threat.The least of the Apes movies is still quite good. It has solid acting and a script with good ideas, although it crams in a little more than it should. This was such a good series and it is, I believe, under-appreciated. Yes the first movie is widely praised but the sequels are rarely given their due. They're all smart, entertaining movies that tell a very interesting saga.

The Planet of the Apes film franchise closes down with a whimper as budget restrictions, general screenplay lethargy and contempt of familiarity swamps the production. Plot finds the apes and humans trying to live in harmony, but find their efforts stymied by a tribe of mutant humans living in the nuked underworld and a power-hungry gorilla general.What follows is a film that sees various simian and human species throw exposition at each other in the vain belief it's literately smart. When the action comes it's half hearted and perpetrated by the least amount of actors possible. The make-up is shoddy, the fun element gone, while the acting is very uneven across the board. There's enough value in the various characterisations to at least keep fans of the series interested, and the photography belies the cheapness evident elsewhere, but really it's a sad closure to what had been a smartly entertaining franchise. 4/10

Made it Ma! After the disappointment of previous instalment #4 me and me Mum didn't bother going to the pictures to see this final part at all, but 40 years later I felt I had to complete the circle now (some circle!) and just saw Battle for the first - and last - time. I was expecting worse, but there are plenty of crappier films than this clinker.Caesar, the King of Ape City - which is apparently a rather sparse collection of trees and tree houses and random twigs strewn about – is encouraged to go on a few seconds arduous trek to the Forbidden City (the radioactive remnants of New York, which is apparently some rather dark boiler rooms and random bits of metal strewn about) by his pair of advisors to view an old videotape of his Mum and Dad talking. He gets to see a couple of clips of it, but the cost of it is that a train of events is initiated leading to a deadly war between mutant (and mad) humans and the apes spurred on by impatient gorillas. Except that the Battle with everyone shouting "Kill" and "Guns" is more akin to a tightly packed affray from a Monty Python film or a Monogram mob scene. A key part is the attempted murder and the subsequent death of Caesar's son – this is poignantly portrayed for 10 minutes but is utterly jettisoned giving the outrageous impression the attention span of chimpanzees must be minimal! The entire film would probably have made a convincing episode from the TV series this incredibly spawned just afterwards, as it is it's almost unbearably drawn out. Maybe a more coherent timeline would have helped those of us ordinary people who had made it this far – as it stands the convoluted chronology is only comprehensible to dedicated geeks. Did MST3K or Rifftrax ever get round to this one?There are occasional good moments amongst the irritating laughable dross: good photography maybe, or some surprising subtlety or acting – but definitely nowhere near enough for me to recommend you waste a part of your life you might end up wishing you hadn't.