Apocalypse Now Reviews

There are worse ways to make movies, but there are a lot of better ones too.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

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

Disturbing tale of war horrors isn't for kids.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

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

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

Apocalypse Now delivers one of the best character studies in the history of the medium.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

A must-see, preferably in the cinema.

Full Review | Original Score: 10/10

The 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.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

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

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

It's a remarkable work of art.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

...no matter what you may think of Brando's eccentric interpretation of the demented Kurtz, you can't take your eyes off him.

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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

The 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.

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

Coppola's magnum opus remains one of the singular reasons filmmaking was invented.

Full Review | Original Score: B+

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

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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A loony, foolhardy, giant-sized masterpiece.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

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

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

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

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