Battle for the Planet of the Apes 1973 123movies

Watch: Battle for the Planet of the Apes 1973 123movies, Full Movie Online – After conquering the oppressive humans in “Conquest for the Planet of the Apes”, Caesar must now keep the peace among the humans and apes. Gorilla General Aldo views things differently, and tries to cause an ape civil war. In the meantime, other human survivors learn of the ape city, and decide they want to take back civilization for themselves, thus setting the stage of warring ape factions and humans..
Plot: The fifth and final episode in the Planet of the Apes series. After the collapse of human civilization, a community of intelligent apes led by Caesar lives in harmony with a group of humans. Gorilla General Aldo tries to cause an ape civil war and a community of human mutants who live beneath a destroyed city try to conquer those whom they perceive as enemies. All leading to the finale.
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Ratings:

	5.4/10 Votes: 31,484
	36% | RottenTomatoes
	40/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 716 Popularity: 20.395 | TMDB

Reviews:

In the beginning God created beast and man so that both might live in friendship and share dominion over a world of peace.

The original Planet of the Apes film franchise closed down with a whimper as budget restrictions, general screenplay lethargy and contempt of familiarity swamps the production. Plot finds the apes and humans trying to live in harmony, but find their efforts stymied by a tribe of mutant humans living in the nuked underworld, and that of a power-hungry gorilla general.

What follows is a film that sees various simian and human species throw exposition at each other in the vain belief it’s literately smart. When the action comes it’s half hearted and perpetrated by the least amount of actors possible. The make-up is shoddy, the fun element gone, while the acting is very uneven across the board.

There’s enough value in the various characterisations to at least keep fans of the series interested, and the photography belies the cheapness evident elsewhere, but really it’s a sad closure to what had once been a smartly entertaining franchise. 4/10

**The best of the sequels**

_Battle for the Planet of the Apes_ is the best of the Planet of the Apes sequels – a film packed with emotion and incident. Caesar (Roddy McDowall) seeks his parents in the ruins of a destroyrd city and irks a gang of crazed freaks who all wear silly hats and _skiing goggles_.

Leonard Rosenman gives us a nice score and the photography is beautiful. The classiest looking of the Apes sequels and definitely the most emotional. Just stick with the first movie and this one.

– Ian Beale

Hail Caesar the King! But Every Caesar has his Brutus
A point raised by Caesar’s enemy, Kolp (Darden in a mustache-twirling snidely elegant turn at maddened villainy), in this 5th and final Apes film. But a king usually has more than one enemy, as Caesar finds, to his grief. A predictable and mostly logical follow-up to the previous “Conquest of the Planet of the Apes,” this one, like “Beneath the Planet of the Apes,” stresses sci-fi action rather than any deep themes related to slavery or culture shock. Several years after a nuclear war, we find a surprisingly peaceful yet primitive village occupied by both apes and humans, governed by chimp Caesar (McDowall), who began a revolution in the previous film, as a young radical. Now much older – either about 10 or 30 years older, depending on various sources – he projects a benign fatherly personality. It’s not quite paradise: though not the slaves as apes were previously, humans have shifted to 2nd-class citizens, despite an image of equality, and tension escalates due to local bully gorilla Aldo (Akins – ‘call me by my proper rank, General, huh!’). Then Caesar himself opens the door to other possible problems by visiting a nearby nuked city (obviously the same one from the previous film). There, the human governor from “Conquest…” has been replaced by his security chief, Kolp, who was bad enough as 2nd in command – now he’s bored just sifting through the rubble with his few mutated followers – time to work off the doldrums and teach a clever ape how to show respect.

This entry is generally regarded as the worst of the 5 films, if most fans had to pick one, but it’s not a complete waste by comparison. There really is a battle at the end, a mini-war between the invading mutants and the village – but then the final confrontation between Caesar & Aldo is slow going. This film is almost like a precursor to all of those post holocaust sci-fi pieces in the eighties (“Steel Dawn,” etc.). The biggest weakness is that nothing really new is added to the saga. The new character, Virgil (Williams), for example, is a genius orangutan, but he’s a retread of the genius chimp from “Escape…” What this film does, really, is bring things full circle for the 5-film saga, though not in a very creative way. As with the previous film, “Conquest…”, events that should occur over the course of decades or centuries are depicted in the span of days. The filmmakers got all the old costumes from the first 3 films out of mothballs and outfitted the apes here the same way, against logic. The mutated humans from the bombed out city are the ancestors of the mutants we’ve seen in “Beneath…” – they even show the alpha-omega bomb which, though almost detonated here, remains as is until it supposedly destroys everything in two millennium. However, a prologue and epilogue set about 600 years from now with the orangutan Lawgiver (Huston) shows that the future is not set, so now we’re left guessing. This movie was followed by the short lived TV series, which took place about a thousand years in the future.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 33 min (93 min), 1 hr 26 min (86 min) (UK), 1 hr 36 min (96 min) (extended) (USA)
Budget 1700000
Revenue 8844595
Status Released
Rated G
Genre Action, Sci-Fi
Director J. Lee Thompson
Writer Pierre Boulle, Paul Dehn, John William Corrington
Actors Roddy McDowall, Claude Akins, Natalie Trundy
Country United States
Awards 2 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (Westrex Recording System), Dolby Digital, Mono (1937 Release), Mono (1934), Mono (1935), Mono (1937), Mono (1937 Re-Release)
Aspect Ratio 2.39 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory DeLuxe, Hollywood (CA), USA
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm (Eastman 100T 5254)
Cinematographic Process Panavision (anamorphic)
Printed Film Format 35 mm