Daninger very weak, unfortunately

StunnaKrypto Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

Celia A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Delight Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

gavin6942 One decade after a worldwide series of ape revolutions and a brutal nuclear war among humans, Caesar must protect survivors of both species from an insidious human cult and a militant ape faction alike.Screenwriters John William Corrington and Joyce Hooper Corrington were brought in after the success of their film "The Omega Man", although prior to that neither one of them had written any science fiction films and, indeed, Joyce Carrington later admitted they had never seen any of the Apes films prior to being hired to write the script for "Battle".Roger Ebert gave the film a negative review, stating, "Battle looks like the last gasp of a dying series, a movie made simply to wring the dollars out of any remaining ape fans." As usual, Ebert is spot on. This feels nothing like an "Apes" movie at all, and the continuity starts to get a little strange. Even ignoring the paradox of the time loop, there is no explanation of how the apes became able to speak and so forth. If Caesar had a mate and this was 500 years in the future it might make sense, but apes simply do not have the ability to speak!

Thomas Drufke If you're this far in the franchise you know how campy and dated these films are, but if you liked the first 4 films, there's no reason to not at least enjoy the final film in the series. 'Battle' is definitely not one of the better ones. It's probably the second worst, next to 'Beneath', but there are some redeeming qualities. Of course, now being it 2015, we have seen Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, which is the best Apes film to date, but it also is a loose remake of this film. A lot of the same plot points and story arcs, just executed far better.It's told as a flashback from 600 years in the future by the 'lawgiver' and explains the anguish that the world was in at the time. Apes and humans had split off after the downtown explosion. But even some apes have split off from one another as they have grown tired of Caesar's reign as leader. This is evidently the last time we see Roddy McDowall brilliantly play an ape and it was nice to see his arc come full circle. Humans and apes back in ape city are technically working alongside each other and Caesar, played by McDowall, serves as the link between the two groups. Aldo is an ape who despises the humans no matter their agendas. The fact that some humans survived the radiation back downtown is ridiculous. And the fact that they maintained the cameras and weapons is so far fetched, so I understand if some people cant get by that. The human villain is also very straightforward without any layers so it's difficult to get into the conflict at times. But to me, these movies will always be more guilty pleasure films than anything else. If you don't take them too seriously, they can be a joy to watch.The film doesn't do much to address what's happening globally but it does give us a sense at the future for apes and humans after the film. I found that aspect to be the most rewarding. It's the one thing that the new apes films do so well, is the relationships between humans and apes, and whether or not it's possible to live alongside one another. So even if 'Battle' was a weaker film to end the series on, I think it did the films that came before it justice. It concluded a lot of what was proposed in the first films and even suggested new ideas going forward.+McDowall's last ride +Cool ideas +Concludes the series on a profound note -Battle scenes are dated -Contrived human plot -What's going on globally? 6.0/10

DKosty123 I see the point here is that Ceasar knows from his parents that the earth is going to get destroyed. The only positive note here is that he wants to prevent that. The trouble is this film totally screws up the time line and muddies up the results of a nuke war. The only thing consistent is the ruins of NYC.After the earlier films, it is difficult to explain where of a sudden all these human survivors and the jeeps, school bus, and guns are coming from? You get the feeling watching this one that the mess with the time line is just being done to make a movie and make money. The only part of this film that makes sense is the beginning flashbacks. After that all I can say is MASH mash, what a mess. The doomsday bomb from the earlier film magically turns into a missile. The ape city changes appearance. The apes suddenly know more about the forbidden zone than earlier films. Ape kills Ape message does parallel with the human kills human still happening on Earth Today.While it tries to end on a positive note, that is the only thing to be thankful for at the end. This film should have remained as studio out takes at FOX. Even the Simpsons have better scripts than this one.

Spondonman 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.