Apocalypse Now Reviews

With a famously horrific and documentary inspiring shoot it's almost unfathomable how Francis Ford Coppolla managed to harness the chaotic energy into one of the most potent examinations of war and masculinity to ever grace celluloid.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

Perhaps Francis Ford Coppola's greatest directorial achievement, Apocalypse Now is a visually stunning war film that has no equal, with cinematographer Vittorio Storaro capturing the films Philippine location to great effect.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5

Apocalypse Now is not merely the greatest film to come out of the Vietnam experience but one of the great works about the madness of our times.

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A must-see, preferably in the cinema.

Full Review | Original Score: 10/10

The best of it is grand, mysterious and oddly possessed.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

Undoubtedly it is one of the best films about war ever made.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

A film that needs to be seen on the big screen.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

It is mystical, daring, poetic, thrilling, appalling and never less than utterly mesmerising.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

A gilt-edged, no-messing, accept-no-substitutes masterpiece.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

Coppola delivered a harrowing masterwork that bursts with malarial, mystical images...

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

A film of pure sensation, dazzling audiences with light and noise, laying bare the stark horror - and unimaginable thrill - of combat.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

This disturbing vision of the harrowing effects of war and violence continues to shock and haunt audiences.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

One of the best movies about the Vietnam War, an epic spectacle that's brilliant up to the last reel, when Brando appears.

Full Review | Original Score: A-

Disturbing tale of war horrors isn't for kids.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

This manifestation of creative determination and hell-on-Earth experience just might reinvigorate your belief that a greater power guides us at our most pivotal times.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

There is greatness in Apocalypse Now, but there is also madness, and they feed off each other.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

The movie Francis Ford Coppola never recovered from, and the last word in Ci-Nam-a.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

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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Apocalypse Now is as good as ever.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

His film is timeless because although the setting may change, the wars and the plight of soldiers will remain the same.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4