“Ape Vs. Monster” (*1/2 out of four) was a lumbering action thriller about an ape who crashlands on Earth which creates a sludge that makes him and a scorpion grow to gigantic size resulting in a fight to the death while the military (Eric Roberts, Shayne Hartigan, Katie Sereika, and others) stands on the sidelines trying to figure out what to do. The kind of cheesy thriller that’s made to cash in on a much bigger one (“Godzilla vs. Kong” in case you were wondering); some of the visual effects aren’t bad but script and story are lame and film wanders too much to its inevitable conclusion. Does Roberts have it in his contract that he has to appear in every movie that’s direct-to-DVD?