This is, perhaps, the most important of the five APES films – the one you can write the most essays about – but it isn’t that great of a movie. It has some major dry patches, and some really dark moments as well.
It may be sacrilege to say this, but the end battle goes on for far too long.
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I like the riots at the end…Caesar takes over from stupid arrogant humans. Slavery cant go on long–Spartacus for example…look at Athens, Soule, Vancouver, people wont take oppression, after a time they boil over and I hope it happens in America. Rid the scum richies out.