Rating: 
Summary: An amazing epic!!!!
Review: A long film, but equally amazing. There is always something in the film to keep you awake. The helicopter-attack scene is one of the best scenes of the film.
Rating:
Summary: Simply the best
Review: This film is my all-time favorite. I've seen it dozenz of times and I still see something new each time. A great cast, and a great director make a winning combo. Even though it is set during the Vietnam war, it is not actually about the Vietnam war. It is Francis Ford Coppola's rendition of Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" which is a look into a man's soul. It may be just for me, but after so many times, the bridge scene towards the end actually becomes quite humorous.
Rating:
Summary: This movie will stay with you and inside you
Review: Saw the movie when it first came out. Talked with many vets of the war about the film and their conclusion was near unanimous: although the events in the film were at times far-fetched; Apocalypse Now truly captured the INSANITY of the Vietnam War.
Rating:
Summary: An awesome film that shows the heart of darkness.
Review: This is a great film. It is a version of a classic novel "The Heart Of Darkness". I grew up watching this film with my father a Vietnam Vet, maybe not the best film for a youngster, but it didn't mess me up any. Seriously though to understand all the suttle points in this movie everyone needs to read the book.
Rating:
Summary: Best 'NAM Film Ever!
Review: As disturbing as the ending may be, this film deserves a place in movie history. What's so wonderful is the fact that this film, like many others back in the day, makes you think. To me that's the whole point of viewing a movie. This film makes you question our sanity as a nation...Kurtz has his little cult in the jungle, but isn't this country one huge cult as well? Do we really make rational fundamental decisions? What's so appealing about this film in addition to its loose ends, which the viewer is left to tie, is the fact that once you start down the road to unstability of the mind your only way back is death. And now, in modern day America, anyone with a good eye can see that our Vietnam vets will never totally sleep until their names are etched in stone like those on The Wall. War inflicts insanity...that's what I got out of this flick.
Rating:
Summary: Excellent
Review: Apocalypse Now is a brilliant and riveting Vietnam War film that captures the American attitude towards The Vietnam War beautifully. The first half will sweep the viewer away; it shows the American attitude towards the war and shows the war in full. The opening and credits are amazing. The second half is good but not equivalent and turns more to the journey of Martin Sheen and plot of the story. Not the best Vietnam War film (it is inferior to The Deer Hunter) but right up there.
Rating:
Summary: IN THE HEART OF DARKNESS
Review: perhaps not the greatest vietnam film of all time, but without a doubt a film not to be missed, from the at times stunning cinematography, to a musical score that takes you on the journey, to meet kurtz!!!, a stunning marlon brando performance..........close the curtains, take the phone off the hook, and get into a film that should not be pigeon-holed with any other...... oh how i love the smell of napalm in the morning!!!!
Rating: 
Summary: Coppola's Bizarre Re-telling of "The Heart of Darkness"
Review: This film falls just short of being a cinematic masterpiece. CPT Benjamin Willard, an Army Intelligence Officer, is returned to Vietnam in 1970 at his own request for a second tour of duty. He wants a mission, and gets one: to assasinate Green Beret Colonel Walter Kurtz who is waging his own war at the head of "native" troops in Cambodia, but who has gone "insane," ordering the assasination of Vietnamese double-agents, two of whom were Colonels in the South Vietnamese Army. The film, which is transparently based on the Joseph Conrad novella, "The Heart of Darkness," traces Willard's own mental and moral deterioration as he travels up a jungle river in search of the enigmatic Kurtz. In terms of pure atmosphere and cinematography, this is an excellent and darkly beautiful film. The sheer hopelessness of the war is achingly conveyed in almost every scene-- even those such as the spectacular Air Cavalry assault on a Vietnamese village which starts Willard on his journey (look for Coppola in an earlier scene with the Cav as the TV reporter urging Willard to "Just go by like you're fighting!"). Robert Duvall comes close to stealing the show with his blood-and-guts character, Colonel Bill Kilgore, the Cav commander. His brief time on-screen encapsulates the arrogant yet heroic premise of the original American involvement in Vietnam. The essence of the film is not heroism, however. The superb performances by Marlon Brando as Kurtz and Martin Sheen as Willard rescue this flawed interpretation of Conrad from obscurity. Sheen's internal narration, set against a haunting musical score, holds the film together and is beautifully delivered. Brando's interpretation of the tormented Kurtz is flawless. So why does this film fall short of the mark? Francis Ford Coppola spent a fortune and nearly went insane, himself, making this movie in the Phillipines. Plagued by logistical difficulties, including a hurricane and the near fatal heart attack of Martin Sheen, Coppola put together a bizarre re-telling of the Conrad novella. The rumored "alternative ending" of the film is quite probably Willard's meeting with the widow of Kurtz, and it is a very great pity that Coppola either did not film it, or cut it. It is the definitive scene of the Conrad work, and might have been of this movie. By depriving the film of the confrontation between Willard and Kurtz's widow, Coppola threw away Conrad's central vision of the conflict between savagery and civilization, truth and lies, moral courage and hypocrisy. This error is inexplicable, and leaves us not disturbed and thoughtful, as the novella does, but merely depressed and dissatisfied. END
Rating:
Summary: A great adaptation
Review: To write that this movie is a comment on war or the politics of the period is a gross misconception in my view. this movie like the book Heart of Darkness, which I suggest everyone who sees this movie reads, is a powerfull commentary on human nature. The line 'the horror, the horror' does not refer to the horrors of war or acts of violence commited but is a general judgement and condemnation of the darkness that resides in human nature. Anyway this is a brilliant adaptation and well worth the few bucks it costs.
Rating:
Summary: A True Masterpiece!
Review: I watched this movie in 1978 when it first came out and was totally in awe! Francis Ford Coppola spent almost 3 years making this film and it was well worth it. The all star cast in this film rocks! Everytime I watch this film, I wind up mimicing the characters. The lines are memorable! (I love the smell of Napalm in the morning.) It is the greatest movie ever made!
|
