Apocalypse Now Redux is the meandering, indulgent art project that he was still enough of a craftsman, in 1979, to avoid.
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08/03/01
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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
Theatrical Release:Aug 24, 2001 Limited
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
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Reviews for Apocalypse Now Redux
Top Critic[The] additions only attempt to clarify what was already evident in the original cut
07/26/01
The restored footage, nearly an hour of it, has at once bloated and diluted the work we've known and half-loved, undercutting its still-astonishing strengths while making its flaws leap out with unprecedented clarity.
08/10/01
The question does the added material add or detract from the experience? Sadly, for the most part, it detracts.
08/02/01
Sometimes it's just better to leave well enough alone.
11/15/01
...a more user-friendly, politically correct Apocalypse Now with kinder, gentler characters, blabbermouth political diatribes, comic relief and mind-numbing repetition.
06/21/02
53 minutes longer, but it can't improve on the original cut.
08/02/01
Grows richer and stranger with each viewing, and the restoration of scenes left in the cutting room two decades ago has only added to its sublimity.
08/02/01
Top CriticStill a great visceral kick.
08/02/01
Those who loved the original Apocalypse Now will find more to admire. Those who found the original self-indulgent and pompous may now find it even more so.
09/19/01
Worth a single viewing for the curious, but definitely not for the purist.
03/19/03
An extraordinary film experience that finally takes its rightful place among the greats.
08/10/01
Still one of the two or three best Vietnam movies, but Apocalypse Now Redux is no improvement.
08/23/01
Taken as a whole, the new scenes serve to reprise that old question: 'Why are we in Vietnam?'
08/09/01
Top CriticNo review available.
05/07/07
No review available.
11/21/05
Well worth seeing for just such insights, its flashes of brilliance, failures, and virtuous intentions.
08/13/01
Where Apocalypse Now once strained for greatness without quite reaching it, this new version of the film, assembled by Coppola and his longtime editor, Walter Murch, has greatness firmly within its grasp.
08/03/01
The movie didn't 'need' to be lengthened, but it's great to see the cut footage.
08/02/01
This messterpiece is sometimes masterful, at times a dud, still in-progress and heading up-river.
08/17/01
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