Apocalypse Now

Pros: Sound and photography
Cons: Script, direction, casting

The Nail That Sticks Up Gets Hammered Down. Japanese proverb Burned-out Captain Benjamin Willard (Martin Sheen) gets selected for a special mission: go up the Nung River to Cambodia and assassinate Colonel Walter Kurtz (Marlon ...

Pros: Even with its faults it was a decent production
Cons: .....

..."I love the smell of napalm in the morning...."... Duvall I graduated from high school in 1964, that was not a good time for young men and women to be starting out on their own. Back then, like now, it was cool to be serving your ...

Pros: Cinematography, screenplay, use of Wagner during the helicopter assault
Cons: None

Francis Ford Coppola’s original 1979 version of Apocalypse Now is a dark, sardonic, surrealistic yet mesmerizing reworking of Joseph Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness. Starring Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, Fredric Forrest, Larry ...

Pros: Possibly the greatest movie of all time.
Cons: None whatsoever!

Willard: I was going to the worse place in the world, and I didn’t even know it yet.

I was eight years old when Apocalypse Now hit the big screens (1979). We didn’t get dragged off on school excursion to see it, so it wasn’t until I was...

Pros: Phenomenal cinematography and sound effects, range in music
Cons: BRANDO!, slow pace, too many time fillers

It was only a few months ago when I watched the American Film Institute's (AFI) Top 100 Films of All-Time. There were many movies there that I have watched, some that I watched after seeing the program and some that I have yet to see.

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Pros: Action, cinematography, characters.
Cons: Not for those who like a structured story with a clear cut ending.

Apocalypse Now is considered to be one of the all-time classic war movies as well as one of the top ...

Pros: Direction, special effects, amazing action sequences
Cons: Last part amazingly slooooow, acting, score

I'd heard so much about this movie I knew I just had to see it at some point. Everyone seemed to love it, and I'm a fan of Heart of Darkness, the book upon which this movie is based on. The movie started slow, then picked up speed for about an hour and ...

Pros: a thought provoking war movie
Cons: none

Apocalypse Now is arguably one of the greatest war films ever made, certainly one of the most controversial and also one of the most original and thought provoking. Martin Sheen is cast in the lead role of Captain Willard, a role offered to a number of ...

Pros: Superb cinematography, excellent performances, lots of subtext.
Cons: It's not the movie of choice if you want complete realism.

Apocalypse Now (1979)

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Capt. Willard: They told me that you had gone... totally insane... and that your methods were unsound.

Col. Kurtz: Are my methods...

Pros: Brilliant acting and amazing direction
Cons: none

Let me start off by saying that Apocalypse Now is my favorite movie of all time. I rank it just a hair above the Godfather although it's a really close call.

Apocalypse Now is one of those movies that is such pure genius it's hard to...

Pros: Well acted and intelligent
Cons: Rife with problems

There’s a scene towards the beginning of “Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse”, the documentary on the making of “Apocalypse Now”, where we find an excitably insecure Francis Ford Coppola, sitting on the bank of a river in what is presumably the...

Pros: Some nice action and a good performance from Duvall
Cons: Weak message, muddy purpose, stupid third act with bad Brando

I've got to be brutally honest with this review. Both in my reasons for writing it and my actual, undoctored, reaction to it. My reason? I wanted to make sure that I still had the stones as a movie reviewer. I've recently found myself agreeing on a lot...

Pros: Very thought provoking
Cons: Rather violent and disturbing

The powerful 1979 film, Apocalypse Now, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, examines the depths of the human mind in a haunting and disturbing realization of war.

Set during the Vietnam war, Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) is sent on a mission to...

Pros: The Best War Movie of All!
Cons: May be too intense for younger audiences...

Francis Ford Coppola went for broke on this flick and got *robbed* by the Academy (who in hell remembers "Kramer vs. Kramer?), but still came up with the greatest war movie of all time. A subsequent documentary about his tribulations provided an...

Pros: Brando, Sheen, Duvall, Coppola, Milius
Cons: none

Joseph Conrad’s novella, Heart of Darkness, about a trip up a river in Africa to find the enigmatic Mr. Kurtz who has gone native has thrilled readers around the world. Screenwriter John Milius and director Francis Ford Coppola saw in Conrad’s...