It's a remarkable work of art.
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11/07/02
Apocalypse Now (1979)
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Reviews Counted:60
Fresh:59
Rotten:1
Average Rating:8.7/10
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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Reviews for Apocalypse Now
Apocalypse Now was enormously successful and has since been acknowledged as one of the finest American films ever made.
10/21/02
Apocalypse Now is one of the great American movies of all time and perhaps the single best war film ever made.
10/15/02
The best picture of all time.
09/10/02
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.
09/09/02
A paradox of beauty and horror.
06/13/02
...arguably the most effective opening in movie history.
04/03/02
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03/24/02
An amazing, singular film experience.
02/04/02
By any standard, Apocalypse Now is a masterpiece, a towering achievement of sight and sound.
01/17/02
Apocalypse Now is a mixed bag, a product of excess and ambition, hatched in agony and redeemed by shards of brilliance.
01/17/02
Top CriticIt remains a wonderfully imperfect explosion of genius and immaturity, in approximately equal measure.
01/17/02
Contrasts aside, it ranks as one of the most moving of its genre.
01/17/02
The 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 CriticIt is so mesmerizing that I kept forgetting to shift in my seat, causing posterior to start to hurt.
01/17/02
At times comical, at times bitterly ironic, and at still others borderline surreal, Coppola's direction deftly highlights the insanity of the war and its debilitating effects on those who are forced to fight it.
01/17/02
What 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
It is more clear than ever that Coppola and company created a profound metaphor for the entire Vietnam experience -- but were ahead of their time.
01/17/02
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01/17/02
Top Critic...no matter what you may think of Brando's eccentric interpretation of the demented Kurtz, you can't take your eyes off him.
01/17/02
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