7 Perfect Time Travel Movies (And 7 That Sucked)

6. Planet Of The Apes (2001)

While not as bad a film as many make out, this film undoes any audience goodwill with one of the worst climaxes in cinema history. Tim Burton directs this way over the top reboot of the Charlton Heston classic, with some good set pieces and a decent lead performance from Mark Wahlberg largely undone by bargain basement costumes and some lazy retreading of the original.

The film sees Wahlberg's character Leo Davidson working on a space station in 2029, where he works with primates who are being trained for space missions. When his chimp pal Pericles goes missing while investigating a space storm, Leo takes off in pursuit, being sucked 3000 years into the future. The world he arrives on has been occupied by talking apes, although this time it isn't Earth at all.

The rest of the film plays out methodically with Leo being captured by the apes, escaping from the apes, then leading a mission against the apes. There is actually an attempt at a happy ending with the idea that humans and apes don't have to be enemies and can build a brand new world together, and would have been an ok wrap up for an ok movie.

Then comes the film's actual ending, with Leo flying back in time to modern day Earth- which has somehow been overtaken by apes. It's an ending that comes from nowhere and makes zero sense. A statue of Ab Lincoln now resembling Ape Lincoln is enough to destroy the movie by itself.