Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)

Release date: 1973-06-15
Country: USA
Language: English
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Production Co: Apjac International, Twentieth Century Fox
Genre: Action, Science Fiction
Rating: 5.5/10
Length: 1h 33min

Storyline

After conquering the oppressive humans in "Conquest for the Planet of the Apes", Caesar must now keep the peace among the humans and apes. Gorilla General Aldo views things differently, and tries to cause an ape civil war. In the meantime, other human survivors learn of the ape city, and decide they want to take back civilization for themselves, thus setting the stage of warring ape factions and humans.

Plot Keywords

fictional war, teacher, orangutan, nuclear weapon, mutiny, martial law, fifth part, falling from height, hand to hand combat, combat, battlefield, cannon, tank, machine gun, pistol, d box motion code, coup d'etat, chimpanzee, cage, mutant

Short Review

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.