Reviews

Great locations and decent performances so it's hard to forget, despite or because of a dumb script and Gibson's shorts.

Checkov's play fits the Australian outback like a glove. This forgotten gem is brilliantly made and acted- great entertainment. The only let down is that Scacchi mysteriously got through it all without a nude scene.

Great opening song / scene and full of slapstick and visual gags. There's Sellers at his best plus a lovely sidekick in Elle Sommer and Herbert Lom's tremendous turn as Dreyfus, tic-ticking away. George Sanders as usual superb.

Endlessly rewatchable slapstick comedy full of style and more subtle than the sequels. Great stars, sets and costumes and fantastic music.

Splendid Pinter/ McEwan/ Schaefer concoction that combines Venice with darkly sumptuous music and great actors. Unforgettable and not to be missed.

Watched this with the sound down and my own background music - entire Doors collection. Interesting experience. 'People are strange, when you're a stranger...'.

Ok-ish but overrated reboot. The humans are cardboard and the apes predictably 'realistic' in the way everything so boringly is today. The film apparently leads to a thrilling conclusion, but I dropped off before that. Bring back Heston, Hunter and McDowell.

The cheap look of the film adds to its realism and kept me fully engrossed even if a bit unconvinced by the plot. It took me in the way a dream can, despite some illogicalities.

Would have made a great20 minute short on the pointlessness of bothering post pandemic. Unfortunately,2 hours too long.

Splendidly made and acted cockney in LA thriller. Deeply enjoyable to watch with a brilliant star performance and style to spare. Makes a tired genre seem original.

...with tongue firmly in cheek, or somewhere else. Spiders, surreal touches, sphinxes and Madonnas, and plenty of sexual stuff that shocked back then but is now firmly embedded in the all devouring mainstream.

Seemingly effortless work from all concerned to make vintage champagne entertainment, signed stamped and delivered. What a bunch of pros.

A fine example of filmmakers working at their fullest potential: Huston, Winters, Fonda and an octopus that symbolizes the far reaching grasp of US filmmaking at its most profoundly influential.

Enjoyable if predictable, or enjoyably predictable, especially because I couldn't have predicted that I would enjoy it.

The first half works better than the second and the apes upstage the humans. While the look and movement of the apes is effective, I still prefer the old 60s film in this department, where the more human stances and clothes made the apes fascinating and more fun to watch. The human characters are no match for Charlton Heston either. Worst of all is the semi-soap opera feel of some of the emotive scenes and the deadly dull piano music that drones on in the background, adding a wearying portentousness. It aims for an epic quality but forgets that epics require larger than life, ambiguous characters with universal interest, and even the best ones here -Caesar and Koba- are not quite that interesting. In fact, the only truly interesting part was not the fact that apes are proven to be just as capable of evil- their rivalry for leadership, from which human power hunger possibly stems, is well-known; it is the newsreels of the effects of a virus in the prologue. What is happening to the world in the 2020s was clearly predicted back then. How long ago 2014 seems! Back to the film: another issue is it feels long because it saves dull and predictable action for the end, by which time the mind has switched off. How much better and unforgettable was the end of the1968 version when films were still mainly aimed at adults...

Good to see Farkas in a lead role, but aside from the car chases and some nudity - mostly Farkas! - the film rarely ignites. Many scenes filmed in near darkness and much of the plot is incomprehensible. And where on earth is the violence?

Mostly moronic nonsense where quirkiness is paraded as wit. Yet, despite its predictability, it has entertainment value, nice locations, and a fantastic villain.

I enjoyed this largely for the locations. The story is a bit contrived to be a kind of Ealing comedy of the 90s, but the actors handle it with energy and humor.

Fun moments and performances do not quite compensate for the way the dialogue is belted out at breakneck speed.

Splendid until the fight with the magician, before the heroics set on.

One drifts along into this sleepy world with its tired stars and old humor.

The main hero and villain hold this together, despite the occasionally windy dialogue and slightly too good to be true females, not to mention the old bloke who acts like he's the salt of the earth. All about sticking to ideals when Americans seemed to be embracing evil - which in retrospect they certainly were.

After a slow start introducing all the characters - and the truly weird romantic lead ( who also sings unfortunately), the film really gets cracking when the Marx bros. Take over. The general anarchy of their humor already intact.

Memorable and powerful look at two drifters inflicting themselves on a rich and lonely housewife. The photography and setting are striking. The main conflict is in the leader of the two who starts to develop feelings for the woman. Another is in the sheer coldness of the negligent husband, who is much more dislikable than the villains.

This Columbo episode never bores but is somewhat short on those extra humorous pleasures that makes the sow great. Good villain and patsy, but a bit long despite memorable settings.