Directed by J. Lee Thompson
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Blu-ray, Fox)
A nuclear war has destroyed civilization some time after the events in Conquest. Caesar is the leader of a group of apes and humans who survived in the country. One day he decides to visit the radioactive city in search of his past but instead finds mutant humans who follow him and try to destroy their village. Meanwhile, he must deal with a threat to his power from a renegade gorilla who has broken their most sacred law by murdering his son. The scene where the apes surround him and chant "ape has killed ape" is chillingly effective. A wraparound narrative, centuries in the future, with John Huston as "the Lawgiver", is distracting and unnecessary. The last Planet of the Apes film until 2001, when Tim Burton made his horrible reboot.
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