Redux's virtues far outweigh its flaws. Apocalypse Now in any version remains one of the richest, most extravagant moviegoing experiences
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12/30/08
Apocalypse Now Redux (2001)
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Reviews Counted:77
Fresh:71
Rotten:6
Average Rating:7.7/10
Consensus: The additional footage slows down the movie somewhat (some say the new cut is inferior to the original), but Apocalypse Now Redux is still a great piece of cinema.
Runtime: 3 hrs 22 mins
Genre: Dramas
US Box Office: $1,982,631
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, Laurence Fishburne, Robert Duvall
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Reviews for Apocalypse Now Redux
No review available.
05/07/07
The best picture of all time.
08/12/06
Revisiting this enlarged, much improved version reaffirms its status as Coppola's last masterpiece but also suggests that as a surreal meditation on the madness and folly of Vietnam, it should be considered a horror epic rather than a than just a war film
06/04/06
No review available.
11/21/05
The new version adds a weight and depth lacking in the original cut.
05/26/04
Worth a single viewing for the curious, but definitely not for the purist.
03/19/03
Coppola leaves untouched the one section that cried out for a new edit - the murky finale that puts the "near" in "near masterpiece.
08/07/02
...a more user-friendly, politically correct Apocalypse Now with kinder, gentler characters, blabbermouth political diatribes, comic relief and mind-numbing repetition.
06/21/02
Almost an hour of new footage has been added to the film, making an already long film even longer, but not better.
12/12/01
Sometimes it's just better to leave well enough alone.
11/15/01
Its sprawling, episodic process evokes the history-as-imagistic mosaic employed by T.S. Eliot, whose work is referenced brazenly and repeatedly throughout the film.
10/29/01
…a longer, slower, more bloated version of [the] incendiary masterpiece which retains much of its power but suffers from some seriously unnecessary revisions.
10/24/01
Brings back bad memories to those who were protesters.
10/22/01
Unlike so many of today's films, which are instantly disposable from first frame to last, Coppola's opus has so many moments of pure cinematic genius that once seen, they stay with us forever.
10/08/01
A magnificent new edition of the Coppola film.
09/28/01
What has not changed with Apocalypse Now Redux -- and the reason to go see it again -- are the visceral body blows it still delivers.
09/28/01
Packs every bit the wallop it did when it was new.
09/21/01
This was the greatest Vietnam movie of its time, and it remains so.
09/21/01
Works both as grand spectacle and affecting human drama.
09/20/01
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