Film Reviews by SJ

I guess I was expecting a normal Planet of the Apes set up i.e. apes and humans in conflict. This was not that with only 2 human characters and the rest chimps and gorillas.

This means that most of the movie is CGI so I may as well have been watching a cartoon. There are scenes where one chimp is joined by another and you're expected to recognise this chimp from earlier - not easy when they all look very similar to the human eye!

Lots of ape on ape violence if that is your thing but for me I felt like that was 144 minutes (!) that I'll never get back.

If you are a fan of Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome then give this a miss.

Yes there are 3 men, a boat, a dog and the river Thames but that is where any connection ends.

A stellar cast wasted on slapstick and bumbling.

Whilst you should give this one a miss I did enjoy the TV adaptation by Tom Stoppard with Michael Palin and Tim Curry - try that instead!

Like a cross between an overlong episode of Goosebumps and some made for TV low budget filler, this film would really only be of interest to children or those who watched it when it came out and are looking for a nostalgia hit. Not scary, not tense, nothing really to commend it to an adult.

Like an over long sub par episode of a generic TV "Chiller/Horror" series minus any gratuitous gore/nudity/tension/scares.

Good cast giving their best are absolutely wasted in this clunker.

Great performances from many actors you will know from shows like The Bridge, The Killing, Brittania, etc. What surprised me most was the amount of humour - very funny in parts. Notionally this looks like a Euro version of many many Hollywood revenge movies however it surpasses most of them for sure. Highly recommended - Give it a go!