Planet Of The Apes DVD Report

Print: Good - Sound: Good - Label: 20th Century Fox - Year: 2001 - Cover: Good - Format: 16:9 - Length: 1h55m/1h49m - Before: Yes as A Download - Again: Maybe - Price: £1 - Rating: 5.5/10.

Planet of the Apes is a big budget remake of the 1968 classic. Leo Davidson (Mark Wahlberg) is an early 21st century astronaut who takes an unauthorized mission to rescue a chimp from a mysterious space storm, but it goes wrong and his ship is lost through a rip in time. Leo crash-lands on a planet where intelligent, talking apes are the dominant species and humans a conquered slave class. Befriending both a chimpanzee activist named Ari (Helena Bonham Carter), who is sympathetic to humans, and a beautiful human rebel, Daena (Estella Warren), Leo quickly becomes a prominent figure of human resistance.

An irritation to the militant and ambitious General Thade (Tim Roth), who intends to hunt Leo down and crush the uprising. War looms between ape and human as Leo and his band head for a sacred site deep in an off-limits desert, where secrets about the planets ape and human ancestry wait to be revealed.

Planet of the Apes is lacking in something, I'm unsure what, it had the money and the stars, and the story was OK, but it was weak. OK if your at a loose end!

Here is the trailer...