A special forces team and an American National Space Administration astronaut (Arch) are shadowing John Christopher Brent (James Franciscus)'s spaceship (the rescue mission from Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)). Fired upon by a Yautja ship, the spaceship of Arch and the soldiers crash-lands on the Planet of the Apes.
Searching for George Taylor (Charlton Heston)'s ship (The Icarus/Liberty 1), Cornelius and Zira encounter the two soldiers that survived their ship's emergency landing. The soldiers threaten the chimpanzee couple, a wounded Predator (an alien Yautja warrior) slays the soldiers.
Freshly ejected from her spaceship, astronaut Arch encounters primitive, mute humans, she overhears General Ursus proclaiming that "The only good human is a dead human!", that Taylor has ventured into the Forbidden Zone (the ruins of New York City) and that they should follow and invade the Zone.
Gorilla soldiers mounted on horseback assail the wild humans and Arch, the wounded Predator butchers all the gorillas and disappears. Cornelius and Zira befriend Arch.
General Ursus arrives to arrest Arch.
What I did like:
The Predator finds John Landon's American flag.
Dr. Zaius reads from the Sacred Scrolls!
Killer covers by Stonehouse, Ben Oliver, Carlos Magno/Rachelle Rosenberg, Christopher Campana/Cam Smith/Rachelle Rosenberg, Skottie Young and Tim Seeley/Brian Reber!
The ANSA (American National Space Administration) uniform of Arch is now correct, the flag of the United States is on her left shoulder.
We get to see the statue of the Lawgiver.
Arch says the famous George Taylor line: "It's A Mad House." from Planet of the Apes (1968).
The Predator finally uses his plasmacaster shoulder cannon.
What I did not like:
Needed more Minister Sabian, Astronaut George Taylor, Lucius, Julius and Nova. A lot more.
Still no smart aleck giant brains in jars aka The Inheritors. Very disappointing.
The unpublished scripts of Doug Moench: Forbidden Zone Prime, The Captive of the Canals, To meet the Makers and Derek Zane + Faron in Journey to the Planet of the Apes are still not adapted!
I give it a 9/10. A promising crossover commences. Buy!
