<P> The film received mixed to negative reviews from critics . The film holds a 38% "Rotten" rating on the review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 24 critical reviews . Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun - Times gave the film a negative review, stating, "Battle looks like the last gasp of a dying series, a movie made simply to wring the dollars out of any remaining ape fans ." </P> <P> In the 2012 film Argo, based on the 1980 "Canadian Caper" rescue from Iran of U.S. diplomats hiding at the Canadian ambassador's residence, Tony Mendez gets the idea for the fictitious Argo cover story from watching Battle for the Planet of the Apes on television . This was a nod to the role of Planet of the Apes make - up artist John Chambers in the Canadian Caper . </P>

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