Those films stripped down the sci-fi premise, serving up an explainer with a real-world aesthetic (ironically, with heavy CGI) that narrates in overwrought detail how apes could come to rule an inhumane society. The public were keener on the Rise, Dawn and War of the Planet of the Apes prequel cycle that would follow a decade later. It’s got a 44% critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a 27% audience score. But audiences weren’t as appreciative of the inexplicable cliff-hanger ending.īurton’s Planet of the Apes is widely maligned. And he manages to squeeze a couple OF genuinely breathtaking surprises that stay true to the spirit of the 1968 film. In his blockbuster spectacle, Burton levels up the time travel mechanics to approach Tenet-like complexity. The revelation arrives in a scorching and iconic final image where Heston’s George Taylor discovers the Statue of Liberty strewn about as rubble. The surprise in the original (spoiler alert!) is that the seemingly foreign planet ruled by apes is actually a post-apocalyptic Earth. In the latter, Mark Wahlberg, an admittedly bland alternative to Charlton Heston, plays an astronaut who once again crash lands into a futuristic society where apes capture and enslave humans in an evident reversal of evolution.
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