The movie Francis Ford Coppola never recovered from, and the last word in Ci-Nam-a.
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05/13/08
Apocalypse Now (1979)
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Reviews Counted:60
Fresh:59
Rotten:1
Average Rating:8.7/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 35 mins
Genre: Dramas
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, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Reviews for Apocalypse Now
Top CriticApocalypse Now is as good as ever.
12/30/06
Top Critic...it's wonderful to see this hallucinatory folly-cum-near masterpiece again on the big screen.
02/09/06
Top CriticCoppola's direction is impeccable, capturing both the intimate detail, overarching spectacle and layered depth of meaning, often all in one shot.
12/10/01
The power of this film cannot be denied, and once seen, it is not easily forgotten.
01/01/00
Top CriticThere is greatness in Apocalypse Now, but there is also madness, and they feed off each other.
07/13/09
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08/07/08
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.'
07/02/07
Top CriticHis film is timeless because although the setting may change, the wars and the plight of soldiers will remain the same.
08/18/06
I remember leaving the theater feeling shocked, bewildered, confused and, though I was amazed and thrilled by the action, the ending somehow left me unsettled.
12/06/05
Top CriticOne of cinema's finest hours...Brando, in his limited screen time, makes an everlasting impression.
10/28/05
Apocalypse Now did help provide me, and many of my generation, with a vision of what film art could achieve, a vision so magnificent it doomed us to spend much of our subsequent moviegoing lives in a funk.
07/21/05
Coppola's magnum opus remains one of the singular reasons filmmaking was invented.
04/02/05
It is also the perfect device for so many universal stories, mythic and true. The journey is everyman’s road to self-discovery.
01/15/05
...one of the most amazing pieces of celluloid ever produced, capturing not only the ugliness and ridiculousness of Vietnam, but exposing the dark heart of man as well.
11/06/04
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08/10/04
It is also occasionally flaccid, incomprehensible and obtuse. Yet, it manages to overcome these flaws to stand as a fascinating study of the nature of evil in man.
03/16/04
Apocalypse Now has a philosophical underpinning that sets it apart from other recent cinematic evaluations of the American involvement in Vietnam.
01/27/04
...Coppola's sprawling, harrowing war story is not to be missed.
12/31/03
Coppola has made a major mistake by this re-edit.
11/07/03
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