So, this is it - the final installment of the classic "Ape" movies. And it's not really a winner. It also isn't Part 2 awful. But just like that it never really took me in. I guess they wanted to show that the future isn't a forgone conclusion. But there are still 1300 years up to the point when Taylor arives so it still could be the same outcome.

Like all the previous prequels this has inconsistencies in terms of the timeline. At the end the custodian of the armory says he's been there for 27 years but you don't see that reflected in the human Kolp who came from that time .And if that MacDonald is the brother of the other one he must have been a child when the nuclear desaster happened. It's also a bit far fetched that so many apes learned to speak in such a short timeframe. Yeah, I know - 70s movies didn't care for that type of things and audiences probably also didn't.

The theme is pretty much reset-repeat. Mankind is evil and out to destroy everything and anything but this time we also have a war mongerer ape in General Aldo. And we see that Apes can be equal to men when push comes to shove.

That battle, or dare I say it - war, was very underwhelming. If each movie had a smaller budget than the one before, there must have been only pennies left. Well, it actually was 1.8m$ according to imdb which is about 13m$ today.For comparison, first one had 5.8m$. Do the math.

After having gone through all five films once again I would make a mental note: if I ever go through them again only watch parts 1, 3 and 4. The rest don't do much for me.