The originally released version wasn't broken, but Coppola can fix it as long as he wants, as far as I'm concerned.
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08/17/01
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Apocalypse Now Redux (2001)
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Reviews Counted:22
Fresh:20
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7.4/10
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
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Top CriticRedux doesn't redefine Apocalypse Now -- rather, it adds archival material. But it's terrific to see the film back in theaters.
08/17/01
Top CriticThis is the one where [Coppola] honors his vision -- or clears his name, whichever way you look at it.
08/10/01
Top CriticThe new Redux version isn't a better film, but for Coppola fans and film lovers, it's essential viewing.
08/10/01
Top CriticAs fabulously, boldly impressionistic and intelligent as it was when it was released, in shorter form, 22 years ago.
08/10/01
Top CriticIt is now a richer, fuller film, if still something short of the longed-for masterpiece.
08/10/01
Top CriticThe movie has aged well.
08/10/01
Top CriticLonger or shorter, redux or not, Apocalypse Now is one of the central events of my life as a filmgoer.
08/10/01
Top CriticTaken as a whole, the new scenes serve to reprise that old question: 'Why are we in Vietnam?'
08/09/01
Top CriticA restoration that transforms a flawed movie, one that was touched by greatness, into a masterpiece.
08/09/01
Top CriticThe film now seems both mellowed and -- thanks in part to the most vibrant-looking prints in its 22-year history -- revitalized.
08/09/01
Top CriticComing back decades later to it, Coppola has been able to reshape these extraordinary scenes with a wisdom and humility perhaps missing before.
08/09/01
Top CriticA great movie, made even better.
08/03/01
Top CriticYou won't see any film this year as beautiful, and plain thrilling as Apocalypse Now Redux.
08/03/01
Top CriticApocalypse Now Redux is the meandering, indulgent art project that he was still enough of a craftsman, in 1979, to avoid.
08/03/01
Top CriticStill a great visceral kick.
08/02/01
Top CriticOne for the ages when it comes to the moral battles of war.
08/02/01
Top CriticGrows 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 CriticThe wealth of pure stuff here, as well as its new proximity to sociopolitical reality, makes Apocalypse Now Redux the best movie of the summer by far.
08/02/01
Top CriticRemains what it always was -- a phantasmagorical trip through the spookhouse followed by a descent so precipitous you can't believe it's really happening.
08/01/01
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