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Apocalypse Now

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Apocalypse Now

Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, Laurence Fishburne, Dennis Hopper, 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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  • SirPant
    September 30, 2009
    SirPant
    One of the greatest films ever made. Historically one of the trickiest films to shoot, it?s amazing it ever got made! Thank fuck it did though, you know a film is good when after 3 hours you still want more! Credit due to Warner Herzog though, it was his idea and his film was har...( read more)der to make and is ultimately better, but this is still one of the best films ever made!
  • Chiefilms
    April 12, 2009
    Chiefilms
    Great casting and plot, one of those movies that bring you in and mess with your head.

    I don't know I gave this film 5 stars when I haven't even seen the whole movie. If the first half is as good as the second half, 5 stars is staying.
  • pier007
    March 31, 2009
    pier007
    I may not like Brando's character and his long-winded, pseudo intellectual bullshit. But I love the rest of this harrowing and dazing war epic, starring an excellent, tired and stupefied Martin Sheen.
    The attack to the vietnamese village with Wagner's die walküre itself is iconic...( read more).
    Vittorio Storaro's cinematography is an absolute work of art.
  • sitenoise
    March 14, 2009
    sitenoise
    No denying it. So much passion went into the making of this film it drips off the screen.
  • her69eyes
    March 1, 2009
    her69eyes
    What's there to say about "Apocalypse Now" that hasn't been said? The film is perhaps one of the biggest spectacles in film history, from the "Ride of the Valkyries" chopper attack to Marlon Brando's larger-than-life performance. It's also one of the most beautifully photographed...( read more) of all movies, with Vittorio Storaro's cinematography creating visuals that movie-goers have never forgotten. While it's debatable to call "Apocalypse Now" the greatest war film of all time, there's certainly no question that it's in atleast the top three.

    Captain Benjamin Willard (Martin Sheen) is a U.S. military officer nearly going mad while waiting for an assignment. Finally, the mission comes - to penetrate into Cambodia and dispose of Colonel Walter E. Kurtz (Marlon Brando), a highly respected green beret who has been driven to insanity. Willard curiously dissects Kurtz in every which way along a boat ride down the Nung River, building anticipation to the famous final act of the film with Kurtz's first appearance. Willard becomes fascinated with Kurtz, almost loving him, and when Kurtz meets Willard for the first time that respect is shared. It creates one of the more fascinating and compelling relationships you'll see on film.

    There are critics who feel that the ending of the film is a monumental misstep, and so self-indulgent that it's hard to get through without rolling your eyes. I, on the other hand, thought these were the best moments of the film - with Kurtz's incoherent pretentious ramblings being completely entrancing. When it comes to films about the Vietnam war, I find a more focused character study to be more compelling than a giant spectacle of chaos (the first part of "Full Metal Jacket" is perhaps my favorite half hour in film history).

    That being said, however, one cannot overlook the scale of the film. It's a film that'll unlikely ever be duplicated - with enormous sets and some of the largest explosions ever filmed. Even the grittiness of the long boat ride, which is relatively small in scale, is heightened by the looming sense of doom that the jungle presents.

    I don't know if i'd call "Apocalypse Now" a perfect film. There are some moments that are completely overstated, such as the Playboy bunny sequence and the sacrifice at the end of the film, and at times I did feel a certain self-indulgence such as the opening montage set to The Doors. When ranking my favorite war films, "Apocalypse Now" would probably be just a step below "Full Metal Jacket", but both films are masterful works that should not be missed.
  • catbox9
    November 11, 2009
    catbox9
    Francis Ford Coppola's film Apocalypse Now is an epic war film depicting the Vietnam War. The film is very loosely based on Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness. In the film, the protagonist is sent on a secret mission (which does not, nor will it ever, exist) to assassinate...( read more) a fellow American soldier "with extreme prejudice". The colonel to be killed has gone crazy. The majority of the film depicts the protagonist and his crew on a boat going up a river before they finally encounter the colonel.

    While Marlon Brando is the first actor listed in the credits, he didn't have much of a role in this film. Brando plays the colonel to be assassinated but he doesn't even appear in the film until there are about 25 minutes left. Due to his immense weight gain, Brando is never really shown in the film. Most of the time he is on camera he is in heavy shadow and only part of his face is visible. This sort of adds to his character's mystique. Martin Sheen plays the protagonist and he's probably the star of this film.

    While not the most interesting film ever made, this film is nonetheless pretty good. The film does a pretty good job showing how everything becomes more and more insane as the boat travels down the river. In this regard it is similar to Werner Herzog's Aguirre, Wrath of God. The film, like Heart of Darkness, alludes fairly substantially to Dante's Inferno. The cinematography is pretty good as well.

    This film took a notoriously long time to finally premiere and prior to the premiere it seemed like it would get terrible reviews. This was not the case as the film won the prestigious Palm d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture and won two Oscars. Sight and Sound magazine named this film the best film of the last 25 years. I wouldn't go quite that far, but it's still a pretty good film.

    83/100
    B-
  • ariel1931
    November 6, 2009
    ariel1931
    Harrison Ford only appears in the early minutes of the movie....but still he is very handsome...
  • etcrevia
    November 4, 2009
    etcrevia
    Not an exploitation film. It is what it is. Marlon Brando's performance: BRILLIANT!!!
  • anospi
    October 31, 2009
    anospi
    This is the best movie ever made. Period. Deep, dark, and more meaningful with each viewing. The 'Redux' version is even better than the original..
  • HateYouIgnorant
    October 27, 2009
    HateYouIgnorant
    Comercial! or stupid! :|
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