Battle for the Planet of the Apes 1973

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Battle looks like the last gap of a dying series, a movie made simply to wring the dollars out of any remaining ape fans. Read more

Time Out: [It] seems reluctant to use the potentials for astute comic strip philosophy that all the other films revelled in to a greater or lesser extent. Read more

Variety: 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. Read more