Forensic Science Movie Reviews

Oh, how Corbin Bersen must long for the easy, carefree days of "LA Law," when he was still considered a marginal TV sex symbol and enjoying a long run on a hit show. Since then, he's gone on to a series of what could kindly be called "B" movies (for this movie, you'd be REALLY kind to stay that high up in the alphabet). Now, I know not every movie can have a big budget, great script, and so forth, but this is pretty ridiculous. Wooden direction, hackneyed dialogue, and a really tired time-traveling storyline all combine to make this great potential fodder for a future episode of Mystery Science Theatre 3000. Purchase only if you work for the Sci-FI Channel...

The topic of time travel and one's ability to use it to change the past (and, therefore, the future) is always fascinating. I personally like the idea that, as they say in The Terminator series, "the future is not set." While Corbin Bersen's acting may not be top of the line, he's actually not the main character and does a reasonable job as a father whose son has been kidnapped. I can't say much more about the storyline without giving it away except, of course, that it has a happy ending. This movie is in no ways hard SF, and those looking for it will not like the movie. But for those looking for an interesting thought and a "feel-good" movie, this it is.

A must-see. If you liked the heartfelt episodes of the original "The Twilight Zone," you'll love "The Tomorrow Man." The story grabs you from the first minute, cast is terrific, and the direction is first rate. Highly recommended!

i just wanted to get it for my dad but without a credit card i couldn't. if u can help me email me

i wanted to get it for my dad but without a credit card i couldn't.

If you have this remastered episodes1-4 collection on VHS. You need to In the first episode we find out the origin of Ultra Man!! This DVD is a lot better quality than the VHS version!!! This is a must have for Ultra Man Fans!!!

From glancing at the film summary, the general setting of Escape Velocity- an enormous, scarcely populated Cygnus-style space station precariously close to a star on the verge of transforming into a supernova apparently equipped with some extraordinary anti-gravity device to safeguard its perilous position- invites comparisons to an updated version of the Black Hole. However, it becomes increasingly clear during the film that Escape Velocity is much closer to an intergalactic version of the thriller Dead Calm. Notwithstanding the obvious discrepancies in setting, there are numerous similarities between these films: both feature a homicidal killer unsuspectingly picked up (and in the case of Escape Velocity, awoken from hibernation) by a small crew of good samaritans, who briefly befriends his gracious benefactors before abruptly turning upon them in order to utilize the capacities offered by their ship. Likewise, the maniac expels the husband or male patriarch (Sam Neill and Patrick Bergin in each film respectively) and terrorizes the wife (and her daughter in Escape Velocity) in the meantime until the captain returns and with uxorial assistance, kills the heartless assailant.
Apart from these divergent details and sequences, overall Escape Velocity and Dead Calm are remarkably alike- unfortunately except in terms of production and execution. Whereas the latter film is tautly made and edited, Event Velocity plods in pacing and suffers from abrupt and clumsily executed plot changes.
Doubtlessly the most awkward moment of Escape Velocity is where the assailant, Nash (Peter Outerbridge) having failed to apprehend Billie (Wendy Crewson) and Ronnie (Michelle Baudoin), implausibly proceeds to resurrect his minions, who, like himself, have also been in hibernation for fifteen years. Although the film did previously indicate that Nash escaped from the penal colony along with his cohorts, it is assumed that they must have died during the voyage since Billie and Cal (Patrick Bergin) never observed, let alone mentioned, that other passengers on Nash's ship likewise lingered in suspended hibernation. Surely such a critical factor could not have been ignored by a purported eminent scientist like Cal. In addition to needlessly complicating the action, the resurrection of these minions throws the whole storyline off balance. Ironically, instead of augmenting the odds against our beleaguered heroines, they actually diminish them as Billie is able to overpower all of them (except, of course, for their ringleader, Nash) with relative ease. (While their incompetence could stem from disorientation engendered by hibernation hangover, the fact the film overlooks this notion entirely makes these characters more pathetic than threatening.)
Unlike the Black Hole, which made deft use of panoramic sets to simulate the majestic interior of the Cygnus as a wondrous space city, in Escape Velocity the space station is unnecessarily large and its size never reflected in the cloistered, claustrophobic sets which supposedly depict its interior. As the filmmakers did not have to go through the ordeal of constructing an ornate ship model as in the Black Hole, it seems that the ship here is enormous essentially to exhibit the handsome computer simulation. (Since it's not a cargo ship, what is all that extra space used for, extra reserve fuel to escape the gravitational pull of the red giant?)
It is also contrived that the red giant is continuously stagnant throughout the film and should only explode at the very moment when Nash is pursuing the crew. (Isn't a red giant supposed to be continuously swelling in size before swiftly contracting on the verge of a supernova?) Moreover, although Cal's space dingy becomes alarmingly proximous to the red giant (thanks to Nash's tampering with the controls), the absence of scenes depicting Cal experiencing any sweat or his ship's hull being charred from the star's immeasurable heat fails to provide basic suspense as well as to stupefyingly defy rudimentary laws of astronomy (obviously viewers don't watch these cosmic flicks for scientific accuracy, yet some adherence to common sense sure could have provided some much needed credibility which would definitely have enhanced the film.)
Given these inconsistencies it is no surprise that incontestably the best (as well as the only decent) part of the film is the twenty minutes which elapse from our introduction to the space station's crew to Nash's backstabbing ploys against them. When we first meet the crew, we encounter an ostensibly tranquil yet emotionally frustrated menagerie with each individual possessing foibles which are promising vehicles for strong character conflict: Cal's disappointment with the stagnant development of the erstwhile red giant, Billie's haunting by her husband's death and her ignominious discharge from the military (an intriguing backstory sadly never adequately explained), and her restless, sexually-starved daughter Ronnie feeling the cumulative toll (pehaps a form of cosmic cabin fever) of prolonged isolation due to the voyage. When Nash is discovered and revived, the stage has effectively been set for his arrival to intensify the tension which already exists among the crew. The tragedy of Escape Velocity is that all of these potentially intriguing character angles are effortlessly scuttled once Nash psychotically turns upon the crew, whereby the film sadly degenerates into a pedestrian cat and mouse hunt with the space station's innumerable compartments providing ample labyrinthine sets for several contrived action scenes.
Escape Velocity stands as a classic case of a film which, had concerted efforts been made to allow the characters to freely develop and not fall into regimented stereotypes of the hunter and hunted, could have become a cut above the standard direct- to- video space thriller. Unfortunately, neglect of these considerations place it squarely in this largely undistinguished film subgenre.

Hi ! I'll drone on a little while, or you can let my Review Title sum things up !!

I'd first like to say, apart from Wendy Crewson and Michelle Beaudoinne as two of Deep Space's Most Heavenly Bodies, ESCAPE VELOCITY shines as pleasant, sit-back / surrender-to-Suspension-of-Disbelief Happy Happy Joy Joy.

Sure, here -are- a heap o' lil' hysterical idiosyncracies to giggle over, but ESCAPE VELOCITY, as before I've noted, is a FUN flick you can leave your Cerebellum OFF-hook for. So, curl up next to your Sweetie and indulge each other in her favorite snacks and beverages, Men !!

Beautifully TRUE to Tradition, ESCAPE VELOCITY boasts a Pistol Packin' Space Mama holding off the Baddies *singlehandedly* whilst her Nubile, Goodie, At-LAST-I-Can-Drink! Daughter take turns fritzing out between bombs and bullets, Carol Lynley / POSEIDON ADVENTURE style.

Where, for you uninitiated, is Our Loving But Tough Step Dad / Commander in the meantime ? Why, CALMLY - and I mean, CALMLY - removing some outerwear so as to most -comfortably- tank-up the (Archaic) Fighter Craft rapidly falling into Gravity Well Hell. ....

... there's even a "Wet T-shirt Contest" ...... but you must bum or buy ESCAPE VELOCITY to see WHO the Lucky Lady (or is that us Men ?) is !!

This is DEFINITELY the Kind of Movie you *and* your Girl can get into, Age Irrelative. Frilly FUN -- NO Final Exam !!

I had enough warm feelings about this movie from when I first saw it in 1955 that I picked up the video right away when it was released a few years ago. I still liked it enough to watch it several times then, though I haven't had the chance to view it since. To some extent, this movie falls into the "so bad it's good category". A new planet drifts into our solar system, and in a burst of creativity is named "Nova". So a space ship with two guys and two hot-babe scientists is sent to investigate. After some initial exploration they discover that Nova bears a striking resemblace to stock footage from "One Million B.C." This is all handled with likeable characters in an easy-going manner, helping to make it more enjoyable that it might seem from a rundown of the plot. {Also, I find one of the women scientists particularly easy on the eyes! And she is portrayed as a competent scientist to boot.) It goes almost without saying that there is no attempt to have any animal in the movie that looks like a real dinosaur. But all things considered this is one of the better movies that uses the "One Million B.C." footage.

King Dinosaur is a dirt-cheap, mildly entertaining collaboration between 1950s giant monster auteur Bert I. Gordon (Amazing Colossal Man, Attack of the Puppet People, Beginning of the End), producer Al Zimbalist (Robot Monster, Cat Women of the Moon, Monster from Green Hell), and screenwriter Tom Gries (Donovan's Brain, Science Fiction Theater). Incredible as it may sound, King Dinosaur, Gordon's first directorial effort, manages to make his The Cyclops or any of Zimbalist's other flicks look expensive by comparison. You know you're in zero-budget territory when the movie opens with 12 (count 'em) solid minutes of stock footage, accompanied by narrator Marvin (Robby the Robot) Miller. (The movie's only 63 minutes long!) Fans of the 'knobs and dials' school of poverty-stricken SF will thrill to the seemingly endless scenes of jet engines, rockets, starfields, observatories, and lotsa scientific and military types pushing buttons and flipping switches (reminiscent of one of those old B&W 16mm high school physics films). These opening scenes detail the discovery of a new planet, Nova, and subsequent rocket flight there by Drs. Gordon (Bill Bryant), Bennett (Wanda Curtis), Martin (Douglas Henderson), and Pierce (Patti Gallagher). Finally, 18 minutes in, we get some sync sound as they disembark on the new world. Unsurprisingly, Nova looks amazingly like Earth and the air is breathable. Good thing they don't need those space suits (left over from Abbott & Costello Go to Mars?), especially since there are only two of them! Bryant and Gallagher wander off and get lost in an episode of Marlin Perkins' Wild Kingdom; Henderson and Curtis are liplocked almost immediately, but their fun is soon interrupted by a rubber alligator (which he wrestles while she screams hysterically) and a giant bug (which he shoots while she screams hysterically). Later, after a nighttime encounter with a huge (real) snake (Henderson apparently gamely let the thing crawl on top of him!), Bryant and Gallagher journey by raft to an island where they're menaced by gigantic rear-projected/matted alligators, gila monster, armadillo, miscellaneous reptiles, and a mastodon/mammoth that looks like stock footage from One Million B.C., and are eventually trapped in a cave (Bronson Canyon) by an enlarged iguana. Bryant becomes obsessed with photographing the creature ("It looks just like the king dinosaur Tyrannosaurus Rex! No one will ever believe us!") and grimaces a lot; Gallagher wigs out (a hilarious scene). They send up a rescue flare; Henderson and Curtis rush to the island, and then do absolutely nothing. As the reptiles fight, the humans manage to escape, and then set off a time-delayed nuclear bomb that they just happened to have along! The closing dialogue is priceless, instantly redeeming the preceding 60 minutes of slow death. While Z-movie diehards will find mild- to moderate-level amusement here, mainstream moviegoers beware: nothing resembling an actual dinosaur ever appears in King Dinosaur. I think my wife summed it up nicely: "This movie is nothing but lizards fighting and people walking around in the woods!"
For this beloved bad-film classic, Retromedia delivers the best DVD package I've seen from them yet. The feature, transferred from a 35mm print that is a bit contrasty at times, looks pretty fabulous for a cheapie of this era. The black level, brightness, contrast, shadow/highlight detail, and sharpness are uniformly very good to excellent, rivaling some of the better Image/Wade Williams discs. Physical damage is limited to some very light speckling and spotting throughout, a rare damaged frame or splice, and a jump or two. It's highly unlikely that anyone will ever find or release a nicer print. Unfortunately, I did notice some minor pixelation/artifacting at times, particularly toward the end of the picture. The trailer (also from 35mm) looks merely very good with OK sharpness and detail, but a little flat and washed-out, and suffering from moderate speckling, blemishing, and lining. Six chapter stops, simple yet effective animated menus, and a rather slim but nicely done gallery of eight B&W photos are the only other extras, but this is still a very pleasing DVD release nonetheless.

If you are a fan of Roger Corman or drive-in style campy horror, this is a great buy. All three films are scratchy, but they all deliver the needed laughs. Creature from the Haunted Sea is the most hilarious with its bug-eyed undersea monster. In his memoir, Corman says it was intentional that the Creature win in the end. Beast from Haunted Cave is not a Roger Corman film, but it's a good one from his brother Gene. Clearly making the most movie out of little money is a family tradition. The Wasp Woman is the most famous of these(surprisingly timely and relevant when one considers how often plastic surgery and radical diets make the news). You can't beat the price. I find it appropriate that you can get these movies without spending a fortune, since no one spent a fortune to make them!

This DVD is terrific. I enjoyed all three movies, each with its own special flavor.
The Beast From THe Haunted Sea is terrifically spoofy. It pokes fun at all the spy genre and the mass hysteria during the Cold War. A bumbling undercover spy infiltrates a wacky group of smugglers with deserters from the Cuban Army thrown in for good measure. The effects are lousy, the dialogue is intentionally awful but funny and th eBeast look like the Cookie Monster with Seaweed.

THe BEast From Hacuted Cave is different, darker and not bad. It involves a criminal gang who steals some gold and tricks a heroic ski guide to take them to his cabin to hide out. During the robbery, a beast was awaken or freed by the explosion and follows the crooks and proceeds to capture them one by one. Only the heroic ski guide and the chief crook's moll excape.

Corman has a flair for the dramatic and a good sense of what kind of story he wanted to tell. Unfortunately, his skills and budgets often prevented him from achieving his goals. Corman epitomizes the adage
A man's grasp must exceed his reach
Else what's a heaven for?!

I will buy more of his works.

Subterano from teh way teh cover box is designed looks like a cheesy horror film. However once one pops in the DVD they soon realize that they are instead watching an action sci-fi thriller.

Subterano is an Australian made sci fi movie. The plot revolves around a group of people thrust into a situation they can't control when they are trapped inside a car park at the main HQ of this toy corporation. These people consist of four kids, an old man, a security guard, and two ex-lovers/revolutionaries. What happens inside the building is some psycho who created this program to imitate the game Subterano, a game notoriouse for never been beaten. THe characters must travel through seven levels and survive the traps set all in an attempte to escape. One bye one the cahracters get picked off as egos collide, paranoia kicks in, and hatred grows deeper.

Overall this is one of those direct to video titles most will pass up as garbage. However in it's degense it does have it's share of wit and thrills and for the most part I would probably rent again (or maybe buy someday). Subterano is a good mid afternoon thrill ride for a rainy day or a sleepover. Just remember that you may have some trouble finding this title.

austrailian movie based on a virtual reality video game gone bad.
very cool characters and FX make for a really fun movie.
movie is set in a parking garage, each level of the parking garage representing each level of the game. must see movie in my opinion. very cool sci-fi flick, check it out.

One of the my favorite movie sort is a CyberFunk movie.
Actually, I saw the movie at first time in Cyber Movie Event in Korea.
At that time, the 'Webmaster' movie has lots of stuff about future cyber world.
For example, 'Terabye Security System' and 'Cyber Ego', etc.

In my opinion, this is not funny and exciting movie any other famous action or
cyber sorts of movie. But,If you really addicted to computer related things,
it can be really interesting and exciting movie for you, although the movie is not popular in many people.

But, Actually I gave 3 stars for the movie because, the dvd title is dubbed as English Audio. ( This title is Danish film. )
It means the point of audio part is really unnatural.

Anyway, Please don't expect the movie story with any other movie's story. This is Just Cyber Underground world.
Just see what is the cyberworld, If you do that, It'll be so interesting or exciting movie of you. :)

I don't know how many times I saw this in the video store, snickered at it with my computer-savy friends because of the ridiculous title, and passed it by. A few days ago however, I was in the mood for some cheesy Sci-Fi and thought, "Why not?" Boy was I shocked.

The synopsis on the back of the video is as bad as the title, but for a foreign film, dubbed into english, this can be excused. I don't know what to say except I really, really enjoyed this film! The plot was simple but gripping, the costuming was excellent, and the technology very believable. You won't see Joe Shmo flying through cyberspace "hacking a Gibsin" on his Apple Computer with a 28.8k modem here. Only the military (and our fearless hero) are allowed Terrabit connections to the internet, and even then, the tastefully few glimpses we get of "cyberspace" barely look different than ordinary VRML technology of today. Techno-music, bounty hunters, an underground SNM club, evil psychotic gang leaders, a little gore here and there, and a very hard-core cyberpunk feel make this movie a sure cult classic.

I didn't give the movie a 5 because only the greatest movies deserve those. This movie gets a 4 because it's fun, intelligent, and the kind of movie I could watch over and over.

I have enjoyed several of Tim Burton's previous films (especially his SLEEPY HOLLOW "detective" movie), and I have been a fan of the original PLANET OF THE APES film since it was first released. This "remake" (which does not follow either the original didactic book or the original movie) seems to have been made solely in order to display Burton's gimmicky idea of transposing the positions of apes and human beings at the end when the hero (Mark Wahlberg) returns to his own time. This seems to have been done merely to surprise and shock the hero (and the viewer), but it makes absolutely no sense, either logically or in terms of the story arc (such as it is), for the apes who are now controlling Wahlberg's earth are far more technologically and politically advanced than the apes who live in the future which he'd just left.

The film has very few interesting moments, a noteworthy exception being when an elderly chimp played by NRA gun lobbyist Charlton Heston (who also played "Taylor" in the original film) expresses terror of guns.

Finally, if you listen to Burton's commentary on the DVD, you may be dismayed by the difficulties he has when speaking his mind: "Just wanted a sort of a clean technology--something not too far in the future--something--uh--very clean, very--uh--but--uh. Circular was always important because I--. That was something I always felt was sort of important to the overall Planet-of-the-Apes mythology. There's a circular-in-nature to the goes-around-comes-around type feeling just in the overall structure, so [I] tried to keep that with the space stuff and--and--you know--keep it sort of clean and technological and--and--you know--that was all very important to set against the brutal--you know--ape world and [I] wanted to make that a real juxtaposition between the two." Get it?

I refused to watch the remake of Planet of the Apes on principal when it first came out, but finally saw it. The special effects are good, the Tim Burton world created is dark, atmospheric, and creative, but the plot is another story.

It's good that they didn't take this too seriously and injected much camp into it. Marky Mark's first encounter with an ape has the ape saying, "Get your hands off me, you damn dirty human!", a reference to the original. Another is with Charleton Heston playing General Thane's (Tim Roth's) ape father and referring to humans, "Damn them all to hell!" A warrior ape "borrows" Barry Goldwater's 1964 line, "Extremism in the name of apes is no vice", but this line is obscure enough to make it a rip-off rather than a nod.

The plot is this: Marky Mark is on a space station in the year 2029 (that's plausible) training chimps to do work in space.
He enters a magnetic storm and goes through a time warp landing on a planet where they speak English, yet doesn't make the connection to Earth (in the original it was Heston himself who argued for English, even though inconsistent, more accessible). In this one even the humans speak English. Helena Bonham Carter portrays a "human rights" ape while her human counterpart Estella Warren usually just fills out the background scenery. Kris Kristopherson (Me and Bobby McGee) plays her father. Inconsistencies abound.

One is Carter helping Marky to escape and he asks why: "Because...you...uh...er...different" I'm not joking, this is the explanation she gives. And to capture 4 escaped humans the whole ape army is mobilized. Roth has some incredible temper tantrums monkey jumping all over the place. Carter does some good "hoo,hoo, hoo, hoos" to intersperse her poor dialogue, and the gorillas have these ultra-deep monster voices. They worship Semus the first ape, and when Marky's chimp comes in a spaceship they bow down to him thinking he's Semus. But Roth is a progenitor of Semus and the top Gorilla is convinced by Marky that Semus actually "killed them all". So the whole culture is changed and apes and humans are ever after fully equal on the planet....no I can't follow it either. And another human ship lands to look for Marky, but the experimental apes on the ship take over and start the whole ape civilization. I won't give the "surprise" ending away, but suffice it to say we're dealing with alternate worlds here.

Again, eee the far superior original, and wait for Hollywood to come up with something new rather than accepting mediocre remakes.

Planet of The Apes is a Tim Burton film. And, knowing that it is in Burton's habits to put spectacular and beautiful yet dark and mysterious images on film, I expected a "Planet of The Apes" with the same story than the original, but with a different perspective in the images. But I was somehow disappointed to see that, sure the images were nice, though not as amazing as "Edward Scissorhands"' or "Batman"'s, but the script seemed to have forgotten. The film lasts two hours, but you don't see them pass away, because you feel like nothing happens in the film, but everything is happening at the same time. The movie could be separated in like three chapters; The beginning, the core and the ending. That's it, no surprises, nothing special, except the images and Tim Roth's acting. This film wasted lots of potential interesting performances *Spoilers warning*(Kris Kristofferson doesn't even play a role, he only runs and die, and Helena Bonham Carter has a very hollow and empty role as an ape who has more feelings, and her feelings are so hard to see because of the limited facial expression due to the make up). Plus, they put Estella Warren wearing some kind of leaves made bikini, isn't that superficial and commercial? This is the first Tim Burton film that deceives me, and I hope it's the last one. This is a very good example of a movie which has special and make up effects as a structure. many people won't realize it, because they'll be fascinated by the images, but this blind attitude is exactly what the makers expected. Planet of The Apes is more a (commercial) vision of The Planet of The Apes by Tim Burton. It is not so identic to the original, I couldn't say it's a remake. The ending is good though, but is still pretty predictable. But really, you can't really get inside of the movie, because it is not attaching enough, all you can do is look at the images...I give it 4/10.

I have enjoyed several of Tim Burton's previous films (especially his SLEEPY HOLLOW "detective" movie), and I have been a fan of the original PLANET OF THE APES film since it was first released. This "remake" (which does not follow either the original didactic book or the original movie) seems to have been made solely in order to display Burton's gimmicky idea of transposing the positions of apes and human beings at the end when the hero (Mark Wahlberg) returns to his own time. This seems to have been done merely to surprise and shock the hero (and the viewer), but it makes absolutely no sense, either logically or in terms of the story arc (such as it is), for the apes who are now controlling Wahlberg's earth are far more technologically and politically advanced than the apes who live in the future which he'd just left.

The film has very few interesting moments, a noteworthy exception being when an elderly chimp played by NRA gun lobbyist Charlton Heston (who also played "Taylor" in the original film) expresses terror of guns.

Finally, if you listen to Burton's commentary on the DVD, you may be dismayed by the difficulties he has when speaking his mind: "Just wanted a sort of a clean technology--something not too far in the future--something--uh--very clean, very--uh--but--uh. Circular was always important because I--. That was something I always felt was sort of important to the overall Planet-of-the-Apes mythology. There's a circular-in-nature to the goes-around-comes-around type feeling just in the overall structure, so [I] tried to keep that with the space stuff and--and--you know--keep it sort of clean and technological and--and--you know--that was all very important to set against the brutal--you know--ape world and [I] wanted to make that a real juxtaposition between the two." Get it?

I refused to watch the remake of Planet of the Apes on principal when it first came out, but finally saw it. The special effects are good, the Tim Burton world created is dark, atmospheric, and creative, but the plot is another story.

It's good that they didn't take this too seriously and injected much camp into it. Marky Mark's first encounter with an ape has the ape saying, "Get your hands off me, you damn dirty human!", a reference to the original. Another is with Charleton Heston playing General Thane's (Tim Roth's) ape father and referring to humans, "Damn them all to hell!" A warrior ape "borrows" Barry Goldwater's 1964 line, "Extremism in the name of apes is no vice", but this line is obscure enough to make it a rip-off rather than a nod.

The plot is this: Marky Mark is on a space station in the year 2029 (that's plausible) training chimps to do work in space.
He enters a magnetic storm and goes through a time warp landing on a planet where they speak English, yet doesn't make the connection to Earth (in the original it was Heston himself who argued for English, even though inconsistent, more accessible). In this one even the humans speak English. Helena Bonham Carter portrays a "human rights" ape while her human counterpart Estella Warren usually just fills out the background scenery. Kris Kristopherson (Me and Bobby McGee) plays her father. Inconsistencies abound.

One is Carter helping Marky to escape and he asks why: "Because...you...uh...er...different" I'm not joking, this is the explanation she gives. And to capture 4 escaped humans the whole ape army is mobilized. Roth has some incredible temper tantrums monkey jumping all over the place. Carter does some good "hoo,hoo, hoo, hoos" to intersperse her poor dialogue, and the gorillas have these ultra-deep monster voices. They worship Semus the first ape, and when Marky's chimp comes in a spaceship they bow down to him thinking he's Semus. But Roth is a progenitor of Semus and the top Gorilla is convinced by Marky that Semus actually "killed them all". So the whole culture is changed and apes and humans are ever after fully equal on the planet....no I can't follow it either. And another human ship lands to look for Marky, but the experimental apes on the ship take over and start the whole ape civilization. I won't give the "surprise" ending away, but suffice it to say we're dealing with alternate worlds here.

Again, eee the far superior original, and wait for Hollywood to come up with something new rather than accepting mediocre remakes.

Planet of The Apes is a Tim Burton film. And, knowing that it is in Burton's habits to put spectacular and beautiful yet dark and mysterious images on film, I expected a "Planet of The Apes" with the same story than the original, but with a different perspective in the images. But I was somehow disappointed to see that, sure the images were nice, though not as amazing as "Edward Scissorhands"' or "Batman"'s, but the script seemed to have forgotten. The film lasts two hours, but you don't see them pass away, because you feel like nothing happens in the film, but everything is happening at the same time. The movie could be separated in like three chapters; The beginning, the core and the ending. That's it, no surprises, nothing special, except the images and Tim Roth's acting. This film wasted lots of potential interesting performances *Spoilers warning*(Kris Kristofferson doesn't even play a role, he only runs and die, and Helena Bonham Carter has a very hollow and empty role as an ape who has more feelings, and her feelings are so hard to see because of the limited facial expression due to the make up). Plus, they put Estella Warren wearing some kind of leaves made bikini, isn't that superficial and commercial? This is the first Tim Burton film that deceives me, and I hope it's the last one. This is a very good example of a movie which has special and make up effects as a structure. many people won't realize it, because they'll be fascinated by the images, but this blind attitude is exactly what the makers expected. Planet of The Apes is more a (commercial) vision of The Planet of The Apes by Tim Burton. It is not so identic to the original, I couldn't say it's a remake. The ending is good though, but is still pretty predictable. But really, you can't really get inside of the movie, because it is not attaching enough, all you can do is look at the images...I give it 4/10.

I have enjoyed several of Tim Burton's previous films (especially his SLEEPY HOLLOW "detective" movie), and I have been a fan of the original PLANET OF THE APES film since it was first released. This "remake" (which does not follow either the original didactic book or the original movie) seems to have been made solely in order to display Burton's gimmicky idea of transposing the positions of apes and human beings at the end when the hero (Mark Wahlberg) returns to his own time. This seems to have been done merely to surprise and shock the hero (and the viewer), but it makes absolutely no sense, either logically or in terms of the story arc (such as it is), for the apes who are now controlling Wahlberg's earth are far more technologically and politically advanced than the apes who live in the future which he'd just left.

The film has very few interesting moments, a noteworthy exception being when an elderly chimp played by NRA gun lobbyist Charlton Heston (who also played "Taylor" in the original film) expresses terror of guns.

Finally, if you listen to Burton's commentary on the DVD, you may be dismayed by the difficulties he has when speaking his mind: "Just wanted a sort of a clean technology--something not too far in the future--something--uh--very clean, very--uh--but--uh. Circular was always important because I--. That was something I always felt was sort of important to the overall Planet-of-the-Apes mythology. There's a circular-in-nature to the goes-around-comes-around type feeling just in the overall structure, so [I] tried to keep that with the space stuff and--and--you know--keep it sort of clean and technological and--and--you know--that was all very important to set against the brutal--you know--ape world and [I] wanted to make that a real juxtaposition between the two." Get it?

I refused to watch the remake of Planet of the Apes on principal when it first came out, but finally saw it. The special effects are good, the Tim Burton world created is dark, atmospheric, and creative, but the plot is another story.

It's good that they didn't take this too seriously and injected much camp into it. Marky Mark's first encounter with an ape has the ape saying, "Get your hands off me, you damn dirty human!", a reference to the original. Another is with Charleton Heston playing General Thane's (Tim Roth's) ape father and referring to humans, "Damn them all to hell!" A warrior ape "borrows" Barry Goldwater's 1964 line, "Extremism in the name of apes is no vice", but this line is obscure enough to make it a rip-off rather than a nod.

The plot is this: Marky Mark is on a space station in the year 2029 (that's plausible) training chimps to do work in space.
He enters a magnetic storm and goes through a time warp landing on a planet where they speak English, yet doesn't make the connection to Earth (in the original it was Heston himself who argued for English, even though inconsistent, more accessible). In this one even the humans speak English. Helena Bonham Carter portrays a "human rights" ape while her human counterpart Estella Warren usually just fills out the background scenery. Kris Kristopherson (Me and Bobby McGee) plays her father. Inconsistencies abound.

One is Carter helping Marky to escape and he asks why: "Because...you...uh...er...different" I'm not joking, this is the explanation she gives. And to capture 4 escaped humans the whole ape army is mobilized. Roth has some incredible temper tantrums monkey jumping all over the place. Carter does some good "hoo,hoo, hoo, hoos" to intersperse her poor dialogue, and the gorillas have these ultra-deep monster voices. They worship Semus the first ape, and when Marky's chimp comes in a spaceship they bow down to him thinking he's Semus. But Roth is a progenitor of Semus and the top Gorilla is convinced by Marky that Semus actually "killed them all". So the whole culture is changed and apes and humans are ever after fully equal on the planet....no I can't follow it either. And another human ship lands to look for Marky, but the experimental apes on the ship take over and start the whole ape civilization. I won't give the "surprise" ending away, but suffice it to say we're dealing with alternate worlds here.

Again, eee the far superior original, and wait for Hollywood to come up with something new rather than accepting mediocre remakes.

Planet of The Apes is a Tim Burton film. And, knowing that it is in Burton's habits to put spectacular and beautiful yet dark and mysterious images on film, I expected a "Planet of The Apes" with the same story than the original, but with a different perspective in the images. But I was somehow disappointed to see that, sure the images were nice, though not as amazing as "Edward Scissorhands"' or "Batman"'s, but the script seemed to have forgotten. The film lasts two hours, but you don't see them pass away, because you feel like nothing happens in the film, but everything is happening at the same time. The movie could be separated in like three chapters; The beginning, the core and the ending. That's it, no surprises, nothing special, except the images and Tim Roth's acting. This film wasted lots of potential interesting performances *Spoilers warning*(Kris Kristofferson doesn't even play a role, he only runs and die, and Helena Bonham Carter has a very hollow and empty role as an ape who has more feelings, and her feelings are so hard to see because of the limited facial expression due to the make up). Plus, they put Estella Warren wearing some kind of leaves made bikini, isn't that superficial and commercial? This is the first Tim Burton film that deceives me, and I hope it's the last one. This is a very good example of a movie which has special and make up effects as a structure. many people won't realize it, because they'll be fascinated by the images, but this blind attitude is exactly what the makers expected. Planet of The Apes is more a (commercial) vision of The Planet of The Apes by Tim Burton. It is not so identic to the original, I couldn't say it's a remake. The ending is good though, but is still pretty predictable. But really, you can't really get inside of the movie, because it is not attaching enough, all you can do is look at the images...I give it 4/10.