He""s gonna know nothing." Ritter specifically asked and received from Cutter a written copy of the President""s authorization to take "new action against the cartels" - it would be an unauthorized and covert paramilitary operation termedReciprocity.Zira dropped a bomb-shell: "We came fromyourfuture." Cornelius claimed that the war was between the gorillas and whoever lived beneath the Earth, and chimpanzees were simply home-abiding pacifists.(The film waits until its climax to provide the typical catharctic bloody violence of most traditional horror films - and with restraint - only one murder!)The film""s source material from science-fiction/horror author Stephen King""s 1977 best-selling novel (his third novel under his own name) by the same name, bears little resemblance to Kubrick""s creation.I like o be on my feet.Keep on the move...I can""t understand these arm-chair officers, fellas trying to fight a war from behind a desk, waving papers at the enemy, worrying about whether a mouse is gonna run up their pants leg.Its director-writer team of Paul Verhoeven (known for earlier filmsRobocop (1987)andTotal Recall (1990)and thenShowgirls (1995)) and Joe Eszterhas (known forJagged Edge (1985)) created this exploitative, soft-porn, excessive, controversial film known for its negative portrayal of lesbianism, violence, initial X-rating, and voyeuristic, sensational, gratuitous sex.