Firstly, it's not fair to compare or contast this film agains the 1968 Heston film. New story, new characters. That said, this movie is a horrible, vomitous mass whose only saving graces are outstanding makeup effects and the best on-screen villain since Darth Maul. Mark Wahlberg can't act his way out of a paper bag. Burton, I fear, will lose Hollywood credibility for this snoozer, even though he's a tremendous visionary. Certainly, the dropped early Schwarzenegger/Stone treatment of this sounds more appealing.