The director deserves an award. Considering the miniscule budget he put together a decent yarn. Made the battle scenes look as big as possible when you only had a jeep, 1 truck and a schoolbus to work with . Story is good, the apes are as flawed as the humans.
Yes "Battle" is my most favorite POTA Film for its theme of the Little or no known peacetime of The Equal Society of Humans and Apes as it starts and finishes with The Lawgiver telling them the story.
This was my very first movie I seen in a theater in 73 I was 9 yrs old ,yeah some do put it down but if I had pick which one was the worst of 5 it would be Escape from the Planet of the Apes ,but w out Escape it would tie together right. If u search video’s you’ll find cut scenes from Battle POTA which should’ve been left in.
@@AvgJRetro re imagine the beginning of Escape,the film starts out show Icarus crew boarding and launching then news break a few days the ship is reported missing in space ,then it picks up the ship returns mysteriously w the Apes on board. It’s rough but I’m sure u get the extended idea ,Taylor and crew would hav one appearance. Lol Charles Heston would’ve hated that coming back for a cameo
