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Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, Laurence Fishburne, Dennis Hopper
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
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The most mind-blowing film of the 1970s. It is not quite the best war epic I have ever seen, but it comes pretty close. In my mind, it solidifies Francis Ford Coppola's place in cinematic history at least as much as The Godfather did, and the same for Marlon Brando as an actor.
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)
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.
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)
No denying it. So much passion went into the making of this film it drips off the screen.
Coppola directed it, Sheen and Brando acting made this movie worth watching it.
I'm pretty sure that the first 20 or 30 times I watched this movie, I rated it much higher.
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