The silliest entry in the series. Made on a shoestring and it shows. Still mildly entertaining, but as it's meant to close the circle on the APES story, you know exactly how it's going to turn out.

Planet of the Apes film series successfully finishes the downward spiral.

The fifth and final Apes movie is certainly the weakest. Fans of the series will like how this cleverly dovetails into the beginning of the first movie but a slow first hour and obviously low budget soon take their toll.

Totally cheesy but I love it.

Little to recommend beyond monkeys and stuff blowing up. Script is full of only cardboard cut outs with little reason or motivation left. That characters would actually justify their actions is furthermost from this film's mind. Its only redemption, ironically, is its Hollywood ending.

The best thing about this is John Huston dressed as an ape tellin a children's story.

That this movie was given a theatrical release surprises me. The decline in FX/makeup quality from the last film continues, and is completely unforgivable this time. Unlike Conquest... this one has nothing else to offer. No politics, no humor, no pathos, no Montalban, no moral-- nothin'. The TV series was actually much better, and that show stunk.

It's clearly not actually very good! The budget, even for 1973 was clearly pathetic and much of this last original 'Apes' installment looks terribly cheap. The screenplay is a curious one too? It starts okay, with some good dialogue but slowly descends into idiocy. But despite the short runtime, undeveloped but promising plot, and curious decline in quality towards the end, I still enjoyed the final fling of the original 'Ape' movies. It's just so charming, and somehow stupidly enjoyable!

The first movie is great, and the rest in the saga all have some nice part and then the most of them are from bad to decent. Sadly I don't remember what was that in this one... I think it wasn't more than 5 minutes idea. The rest is quite bad, has lack of originallity, and just a bit entertaining. Whatever, this is the worst Planet of the Apes from original saga.

The saga is finished in a bad, lousy chapter. Unbearably poor.

Messy.

The tragic cycle of events punctuated so effectively by "Conquest" is retooled for the Saturday morning matinee crowd. Awful.

For the final instalment on the POTA series J. Lee Thompson does a fine job (for what this is) on a low budget. I had this episode as a comic book when I was a kid and loved it. Still do. Of course, one may wonder where did the director's brilliance displayed on "Guns of Navarone" or "Cape Fear" went but that's a different issue.

The last and least of the original ape movies... Next up the lame 70's TV show