Battle for the Planet of the Apes (4 Stars)

I confess to never having seen this film before today. The first four parts of the pentalogy have been familiar to me since I was young.

The film takes place 10 years after the rebellion of the apes in the fourth film. During this time a nuclear war has taken place, and the world is living in post-apocalyptic squalor. Humans and apes are living together in peace, but the apes are the leaders. Caesar, the chimpanzee who led the rebellion in the previous film, is the benign ruler, but the warlike gorillas are angry with the privileges he gives humans.

Caesar goes on a mission to find the tapes of the interviews made with his parents in the third film. Although the main reason is to get to know his parents, since they died when he was too young to remember them, he also wants to find out what will happen in the future that they came from, in order to prevent it.

While the film's action is interesting, it fails to answer questions such as how humans lost the capability to speak. It might be the final part of the pentalogy, but it leaves open more questions than it answers.