3. The Apes Taking Over The World - Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes
I guess you can put this one down to budgetary concerns and the need to actually end the damn film. We'd already been treated to a heroic amount of gorilla-based carnage over the ensuing two hours-plus, so it's no wonder the film-makers made like stern teachers and took out favourite primate apocalypse off us and said we'd had enough. Yet still, watching the apes tear up San Francisco in double-quick fashion and then negating the rest of the world's conflict is like allowing us to watch a schoolyard scrap but not Mike Tyson demolishing his next opponent/victim. One will always sadly pale to the other both in terms of violence and lunacy, so being deprived of it for some fancy virus-spreading graphics was a tad galling. Seriously, just imagine it naming any city sounds so much cooler when you can stick 'a gorilla army invades' in front of it. Go on, try it. A gorilla army invades Paris. A gorilla army invades Tokyo. A gorilla army invades Knebworth. It's all so much better when you involve furious apes, and hopefully the sequel set 10 years later, after the carnage will amend this craving for monkey-bloodlust.