Alternately a brilliant and bizarre film, Francis Coppola's four year 'work in progress' offers the definitive validation to the old saw, 'war is hell.'
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07/02/07
Apocalypse Now (1979)
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Reviews Counted:10
Fresh:9
Rotten:1
Average Rating:7.8/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 35 mins
Genre: Dramas
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
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Top CriticApocalypse 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.
07/21/05
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08/10/04
Top CriticApocalypse Now is a mixed bag, a product of excess and ambition, hatched in agony and redeemed by shards of brilliance.
01/17/02
Top CriticThe opening, with the whirling sound of choppers intercut with Willard sweating angst in his Saigon hotel bed, a jungle burning with napalm...remains a visual and aural wonder.
01/17/02
Top CriticWhat the excitement was about was the unspoken belief that this film would put a cap on the most exciting decade in American film, that it would sum up everything that had come before and influence everything that came after...
01/17/02
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01/17/02
Top Critic...the movie still has the power to floor you with its stunning sounds and imagery.
01/17/02
Top CriticAs technically complex and masterful as any war film I can remember.
01/15/02
Top CriticThere are worse ways to make movies, but there are a lot of better ones too.
09/11/01
Top CriticThe film has one of the most haunting endings in cinema, a poetic evocation of what Kurtz has discovered, and what we hope not to discover for ourselves.
01/01/00
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