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Synopsis: Francis Ford Coppola's Vietnam epic, loosely based on HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad, tells the story of Captain Willard (Martin Sheen), a special agent sent into Cambodia to assassinate an... [More]
Starring: Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
This is still magnificent filmmaking and story-telling on every level. Apocalypse Now is one of the great films because it is about every war ever fought and at the same time is about much more than men in combat.
Top CriticThe score is wonderous, the production design solid and never overdone, and the cinematography is just wow....when it comes to a movie about war this is a real masterpiece.
Top CriticThere is greatness in Apocalypse Now, but there is also madness, and they feed off each other.
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The movie Francis Ford Coppola never recovered from, and the last word in Ci-Nam-a.
Top CriticAlternately a brilliant and bizarre film, Francis Coppola's four year 'work in progress' offers the definitive validation to the old saw, 'war is hell.'
Top CriticApocalypse Now is as good as ever.
Top CriticHis film is timeless because although the setting may change, the wars and the plight of soldiers will remain the same.
...it's wonderful to see this hallucinatory folly-cum-near masterpiece again on the big screen.
I remember leaving the theater feeling shocked, bewildered, confused and, though I was amazed and thrilled by the action, the ending somehow left me unsettled.
Top CriticOne of cinema's finest hours...Brando, in his limited screen time, makes an everlasting impression.
Apocalypse Now did help provide me, and many of my generation, with a vision of what film art could achieve, a vision so magnificent it doomed us to spend much of our subsequent moviegoing lives in a funk.
Coppola's magnum opus remains one of the singular reasons filmmaking was invented.
It is also the perfect device for so many universal stories, mythic and true. The journey is everyman’s road to self-discovery.
...one of the most amazing pieces of celluloid ever produced, capturing not only the ugliness and ridiculousness of Vietnam, but exposing the dark heart of man as well.
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It is also occasionally flaccid, incomprehensible and obtuse. Yet, it manages to overcome these flaws to stand as a fascinating study of the nature of evil in man.
Apocalypse Now has a philosophical underpinning that sets it apart from other recent cinematic evaluations of the American involvement in Vietnam.
...Coppola's sprawling, harrowing war story is not to be missed.
Coppola has made a major mistake by this re-edit.
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