Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, Laurence Fishburne, Dennis Hopper ...( see more  see more... ) , Frederic Forrest , Harrison Ford , Scott Glenn

During the Vietnam War, the young American Captain Willard is given the assignment to hunt down and kill one of his own: Colonel Kurtz, who has apparently gone insane, murdered hundreds of innocent pe...( read more  read more... )ople and constructed a strange kingdom for himself deep in the jungle. Willard and his crew embark on a surreal river journey to find Kurtz, meeting along the way a Lieutenant-Colonel who surfs during live combat, Playboy bunnies dropped in by helicopter to entertain rowdy troops, and the inhabitants of a French plantation trapped in colonial times.

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R, 2 hr. 33 min.

Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola

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DVD Release Date: November 20, 2001

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December 31, 2003
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times

...Coppola's sprawling, harrowing war story is not to be missed. full review

January 17, 2002
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

The opening, with the whirling sound of choppers intercut with Willard sweating angst in his Saigon hotel bed, a jungle burning with napalm...remains a visual and aural wonder. full review

January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

The film has one of the most haunting endings in cinema, a poetic evocation of what Kurtz has discovered, and what we hope not to discover for ourselves. full review

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  • kanokaan
    May 24, 2009
    Affective...
  • TheMightyCelestial
    June 18, 2008
    For any actor to be able to transform a role into one that becomes one of those rare cinematic icons of American culture, is almost always a good indication of the strength of the performance behind it.
    Take Robert Duvall.
    One of my favorite scenes is of Lt. Colonel Kilgore walking blithely around in the middle of blazing warzone as the shells, grenades & bullets exploding around him, while everyone else is shooting or running for cover. You can really tell the sincerty in his comment of liking the morning smell of napalm.
    Which, BTW, is a view that I find myself not sharing.
    And even though I've never actually experienced the smell of napalm in the morning,
    I have been awakened on several occasions by the burning hot & almost equally as dangerous fragrance of my own farts.
    Which, I can imagine, can't be all that much of a difference in experience.
    Especially when the night before, I might've indulged in a midnight snack consisting of a huge steak sandwich with a layer of bacon on it.
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  • bluejays86rock
    April 7, 2007
    well i wasnt even around when this tragic war was happening but i have relatives who were in it and vietnam and korea were both losing wars for us, political wars is all they were that killed alot of people, oh well this is just my opinion so who cares lol.
  • DroogenLeader
    March 28, 2007
    Quiz I made on 'Apocalypse Now';

    http://www.flixster.com/user/droogenleader/quiz/heart-of-darkness?invitorId=210110980
  • DroogenLeader
    March 14, 2007
    Downloaded it. Again, great film.
  • DroogenLeader
    March 1, 2007
    This film is fucking ace. My favourite movie ever, and I'm still ashamed to have not seen 'Redux'. Soon I will have the money...
  • sarmad730
    December 9, 2006
    Saigon... shit; I'm still only in Saigon... Every time I think I'm gonna wake up back in the jungle. When I was home after my first tour, it was worse. I'd wake up and there'd be nothing. I hardly said a word to my wife, until I said "yes" to a divorce. When I was here, I wanted to be there; when I was there, all I could think of was getting back into the jungle. I'm here a week now... waiting for a mission... getting softer; every minute I stay in this room, I get weaker, and every minute Charlie squats in the bush, he gets stronger. Each time I looked around, the walls moved in a little tighter.
  • fareloy
    September 24, 2006
    can listen,can fill,but can't see...very powerfull
  • yeyopharmer
    August 31, 2006
    The greatest war movie of all time.... Barnone.

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