53 minutes longer, but it can't improve on the original cut.
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08/02/01
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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
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
Brings back bad memories to those who were protesters.
10/22/01
A restoration that transforms a flawed movie, one that was touched by greatness, into a masterpiece.
08/09/01
This is the one where [Coppola] honors his vision -- or clears his name, whichever way you look at it.
08/10/01
Top CriticHas sinew, conviction and the spontaneity of a deck of cards hurled into the air.
08/24/01
Apocalypse Now is a frenzied, free-based ode to the grieving soldier and his need-to-numb.
08/03/01
Adds to the stature of a genuine classic that remains a unique cinematic exploration of the insanity of war and the deceit that accompanies it.
07/27/01
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