The world is shocked by the appearance of three talking chimpanzees, who arrived mysteriously in a spacecraft. Intrigued by their intelligence, humans use them for research - until the apes attempt to escape.
One of the better new movies in town, and better in a genre -- science-fiction -- that at the crucial middle level where the history of movies is made, if not written, has recently been not so much bad as invisible.
– Roger Greenspun,
New York Times,
10 May 2005
fresh:
Escape from the Planet of the Apes is an excellent film, almost as good as the original Planet of the Apes.
– ,
Variety,
4 Jun 2007
rotten:
It's a long way down from even the second in the series.