Apocalypse Now Review: ★ 4 Quality & ☺3½ Rewatchability (1374 Ratings)

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Apocalypse Now 1979

Francis Ford Coppola

Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Laurence Fishburne, Sam Bottoms

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Danny B 12 months ago

It had to be Brando you wait the whole film to see. Who else would have been worth it?

Haydn Line 12 months ago

Check out the imdb trivia after you watch it. Classic.

platonic bdsm over 2 years ago

Watched this in editing I. Lets hope I never have to again.

Nino D over 2 years ago

A true Classic, most beautiful movie ever created. Good simple story, watch and enjoy

Anthony Kozlowski 4 years ago

A cinematic masterpiece on all fronts. Exhausting to watch though.

Nat Voisey 4 years ago

Amazing move. Visuals and music were great. Definitely have to watch. So good!

David Myles almost 5 years ago

Simply the best anti-war film ever made.

Grant davies 5 years ago

Not my fav Vietnam flix. Still very good though.

Doug Stratton 5 years ago

A classic. I love the smell of napalm in the morning.

Phil Edward Fraser Packham 5 years ago

Very interesting concept making it thrilling; technically and visually.

Jonathan Evans 5 years ago

Journey from the intense to the insane. symbolic really. Cryptic end, probably the point.

Keith Shorey 5 years ago

Probably the best war movie, in my opinion. Martin Sheen is outstanding.

Jacqui Hocking 5 years ago

masterpiece.

Emmet O Sullivan 5 years ago

Pretty dark but also really watchable and entertaining

Austin 5 years ago

A truly incredible adaptation of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness.

Jonathan Gibson 5 years ago

Rather pretentious at times and Brando's performance is dodgy but very interesting film.

Professional Moron over 5 years ago

I seem to be one of the few people who can't enjoy this film. It's just... dull.

Bogdan Michitele over 5 years ago

My favorite war movie. Watch the Redux version for the real deal.

Stephen Buerge over 5 years ago

totally awesome

Michael Cole over 5 years ago

Certainly nails the dark and gritty theme of war, but the story isn't especially engaging.

Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American war film set during the Vietnam War, produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The central character is US Army special operations officer Captain Benjamin L. Willard (Martin Sheen), of MACV-SOG, an assassin sent to kill the renegade and presumed insane Special Forces Colonel Walter E. Kurtz (Marlon Brando). Coppola's and John Milius's script is based on Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness, and also draws from Michael Herr's Dispatches, the film version of Conrad's Lord Jim (which shares the same character of Marlow with Heart of Darkness), and Werner Herzog's Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972). The film drew attention for its lengthy and troubled production. Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse documented Brando's showing up on the set overweight, Sheen's heart attack, and extreme weather destroying several expensive sets. The film's release was postponed several times while Coppola edited millions of feet of footage. On the review...