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08/10/01
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
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
Reviews for Apocalypse Now Redux
An extraordinary film experience that finally takes its rightful place among the greats.
08/10/01
As fabulously, boldly impressionistic and intelligent as it was when it was released, in shorter form, 22 years ago.
08/10/01
It is now a richer, fuller film, if still something short of the longed-for masterpiece.
08/10/01
The movie has aged well.
08/10/01
Longer 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
A restoration that transforms a flawed movie, one that was touched by greatness, into a masterpiece.
08/09/01
There is more narrative clarity, and almost every character gains definition and humanity.
08/09/01
The film now seems both mellowed and -- thanks in part to the most vibrant-looking prints in its 22-year history -- revitalized.
08/09/01
Coming 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
Apocalypse Now is a frenzied, free-based ode to the grieving soldier and his need-to-numb.
08/03/01
In some ways even richer and more atmospheric than the original version, in others attenuated and logy.
08/03/01
A great movie, made even better.
08/03/01
You won't see any film this year as beautiful, and plain thrilling as Apocalypse Now Redux.
08/03/01
Apocalypse Now Redux is the meandering, indulgent art project that he was still enough of a craftsman, in 1979, to avoid.
08/03/01
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
Still a great visceral kick.
08/02/01
Although its magnificently restored print and marvelously revamped soundtrack are reason enough to catch it in the theater, one can't help but feel that the new scenes detract from the film's epic tale.
08/02/01
53 minutes longer, but it can't improve on the original cut.
08/02/01
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