Thin story but lots of action, though the relentless fighting gets a bit monotonous.
Good performances from Roddy McDowall, Hari Rhodes and Ricardo Montalban. Fun to see nice guy Don Murray play a devious villain.
Like all ape films there is the pithy social commentary, but it is a bit heavy handed and obvious. The most sympathetic human is a black guy (get it?)
The thing with the ape sequels is that they all made statements on society, but all those ideas were present in the original film anyway. All the satire of the sequels was really just a reworking of things we have seen before.
Good performances from Roddy McDowall, Hari Rhodes and Ricardo Montalban. Fun to see nice guy Don Murray play a devious villain.
Like all ape films there is the pithy social commentary, but it is a bit heavy handed and obvious. The most sympathetic human is a black guy (get it?)
The thing with the ape sequels is that they all made statements on society, but all those ideas were present in the original film anyway. All the satire of the sequels was really just a reworking of things we have seen before.