Apocalypse Now (1979)
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Cast
as Capt. Benjamin Willard
as Col. Kurtz
as Lt. Col. Kilgore
as Chef Hicks
as Lance
as Clean
as Lance
as Photojournalist
as Col. Lucas
as Capt. Richard Colby
as Chief
as Corman
as Agent
as Playmate of the Year
as Playmate of the Year
as Playmate
as Soldier with Suitcase
as Playmate
as Civilian
as 1st MP Sergeant
as Kilgore's Gunner
as San Diego Mike
as Injured Soldier
as Supply Sergeant
as Soldier in Trench
as Lieutenant Carlsen
as Soldier with Suitcase
as Machine Gunner
as Roach
as Spotter
as 2nd MP Sergeant
as AFRS Announcer
as Major from New Jersey
as Catholic Priest
as Heliocopter Pilot
as Malibu Johnny
as Helicopter Pilot
as Film Director, TV Crew Director
as Member of TV Crew
as Photographer
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Critic Reviews for Apocalypse Now
All Critics (85) | Top Critics (17) | Fresh (82) | Rotten (3) | DVD (26)
It has coherence, truthfulness, and conviction-up to a point.
It's the cumulative effect generated by mixing richly portentous imagery with absurdly portentous prose, starkly portentous sound and flatulently portentous music.
Certainly, no movie in history has ever presented stronger proof that war is living hell.
A film of pure sensation, dazzling audiences with light and noise, laying bare the stark horror - and unimaginable thrill - of combat.
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.'
...it's wonderful to see this hallucinatory folly-cum-near masterpiece again on the big screen.
Audience Reviews for Apocalypse Now
Enjoyed 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.
Super Reviewer
Coppola's all-time classic is an intense Vietnam War nightmare that sets out to portray with some of the most spectacular visuals the unfathomable horror and madness of war, following a man as he goes further and further in a harrowing descent into the very heart of darkness.
Super Reviewer
The way the film is shot is as searing as the Vietnamese heat; few films can compare to the intensity and quality of picturesque way it is shot accompanied with its great writing, and legendary direction.
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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. |