Apocalypse Now
1979, War/Drama, 2h 33m
97 Reviews 250,000+ RatingsWhat to know
Francis Ford Coppola's haunting, hallucinatory Vietnam War epic is cinema at its most audacious and visionary. Read critic reviews
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Colonel Kurtz
Captain Willard
Lt. Col. Kilgore
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Critic Reviews for Apocalypse Now
All Critics (97) | Top Critics (28) | Fresh (95) | Rotten (2)
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Apocalypse has the expressive extravagance of a Wagner opera-and not merely because the swooping helicopter scene is set to the "Ride of the Valkyries."
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It has coherence, truthfulness, and conviction-up to a point.
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It's the cumulative effect generated by mixing richly portentous imagery with absurdly portentous prose, starkly portentous sound and flatulently portentous music.
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Certainly, no movie in history has ever presented stronger proof that war is living hell.
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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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The best of it is grand, mysterious and oddly possessed.
May 27, 2011 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
Audience Reviews for Apocalypse Now
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Jan 27, 2018A disturbing film, but a poignant character study and a brilliant depiction of the horrors of the Vietnam War... I loved it!Serge E Super Reviewer
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Jun 26, 2017In the 1970s Francis Ford Coppola directed four of the best films of the 20th century: The first two Godfather movies, The Conversation and Apocalypse Now. From this canon of work my favorite is Apocalypse Now. This is a collision of sound, image, and obsession. The horror of war and the need to commit to that horror is the theme. After it's over it will echo in your mind... forever and ever.Aldo G Super Reviewer
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Aug 25, 2016Enjoyed the first two thirds of the movie more than the final third, but it was still very well done and well acted. Fat Brando is always nice, too.Spencer M Super Reviewer
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Apr 17, 2016Excellent camera work, an impeccably chosen sound track and legendary performances make for one of the greatest war epics of all time. Apocalypse Now captures the madness and terror of war and the darker elements of our existence, perhaps most perfectly in any scene not directly dealing with combat. The simple hunt for a surfing spot or the bizarre USO show scenes are more rattling than the movie's visceral gory moments. A viewer is inescapably left with a deep sense of unease and confusion throughout this film. The excellent Marlon Brando delivers a captivating and, evidently, mostly unscripted performance. He steals the final third of the movie. At every moment there is an engrossing sense of confusion, angst and simmering anger, all the essential ingredients of insanity. Col Kurtz crossed a line somewhere in his journey through combat from which he cannot return. War provides the canvass and catalyst for Col Kurtz to see the remarkable humbling reality of how precariously close we all sit to falling into the "horror". Seldom is a film so brilliant it cannot really be adequately summarized in words, Apocalypse Now is such a film. When you walk away after your first viewing, you cannot help but feel that you witnessed a crowning artistic achievement. Perhaps the subject matter of madness in war is what keeps this film so illusory and mystifying, yet, make no mistake, it is truly excellent.Shane S Super Reviewer
Apocalypse Now Quotes
| Lt. Col. Kilgore: | They were going to make me a major for this, and I wasn't even in their fucking army anymore. Everybody wanted me to do it; him most of all. I felt like he was up there waiting for me to take the pain away. He just wanted to go out like a soldier. Standing up. Not like some poor wasted rag-assed renegade. Even the jungle wanted him dead. That's who he really took his orders from, anyway. |
| Photo Journalist: | The heads. You're looking at the heads. Sometimes he goes too far. He's the first one to admit it. |
| Capt. Benjamin Willard: | Part of me was afraid of what I would find and what I would do when I got there. I knew the risks, or imagined I knew. But the thing I felt the most, much stronger than fear, was the desire to confront him. |
| Photo Journalist: | There's mines over there, there's mines over there, and watch out those goddamn monkeys bite, I'll tell ya. |
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