Wednesday, 10 April 2013

Ape kills ape


Battle for Planet of the Apes (1973)

Directed by J. Lee Thompson this 5th installment in the popular film series stars Roddy McDowall, Claude Akins, Paul Williams and Austin Stoker. After a nuclear war ape and man try to build a new peaceful society together.

There are some attempts at interesting themes in this film but ultimately the script is a rather weak effort that leaves too many things unexplained. The plot does not really go anywhere and it is easy to see that by this point the series was running out of ideas. Bringing in someone like John Huston for a cameo role seems fairly pointless when you are going to cover him in make up so that you can not tell who he is.

2/5

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