Battle for the Planet of the Apes, 1973. Apes and humans battle for the planet of the apes. Directed by J. Lee Thompson. Written by John William Corrington & Joyce Hooper Corrington; story by Paul Dehn, based on characters by Pierre Boulle (but not really). Starring Roddy McDowall, Claude Akins, Paul Williams & Austin Stoker.
Concept: 3/4 (Good). Post-apocalyptic battle? Okay!
Story: 0/4 (Terrible). The basic plot points could have made a good story, but the execution is at an exceptional level of terrible.
Characters: 1/4 (Bad)
Dialog: 0/4 (Terrible). A contender for the worst dialog ever written.
Pacing: 0/4 (Terrible). It's a 90-minute action movie, and yet it's excruciatingly boring. How did they even do that?
Cinematography: 2/4 (Indifferent)
Special effects/design: 1/4 (Bad)
Acting: 1/4 (Bad)
Music: 2/4 (Indifferent)
Subjective Rating: 3/10 (Bad, 1/4). Unrelentingly awful. But without any of the camp value of the fourth movie. Just awful.
Objective Rating (Average): 1.1/4 (Bad)
(update of a previous post - original is here (and I don't know what I was thinking, giving this a 6/10)
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