Apocalypse Now Redux

Pros: Too many pros..this is astounding.
Cons: One added scene was unnecessary and tedious

Apocalypse Now Redux is the Directors's cut of 1979's Apocalypse Now. This is a movie about the Viet Nam war..sorta. Actually, it's more about one man's long journey up into Cambodia to find Colonel Kurtz and terminate his command... with...

Pros: Story, pacing, atmosphere, cinematography, acting is decent
Cons: A couple of silly scenes

There are already more than two dozen reviews of the film.  I typically wait until I have finished my review to read them so I am coming to it as cleanly as possible.  I glanced at a few and they point, correctly, Conrad’s Heart of ...

Pros: Everyone, everything.
Cons: New scenes had reason for being deleted.

Theater Now
I was really excited to see this movie this summer. Apocalypse Now has always been one of my favorite movies, and so when I heard that Francis Ford Coppola was re-releasing it in theaters with the edited-out footage, I...

Pros: A Sprawling, Psychological War Masterpiece from Francis Ford Coppola Made Even Better.
Cons: None though Some Will Not Like The New Scenes.

If there's film subject concerning war that is carefully talked about in film, it was Vietnam. In the 1970s, there were great Vietnam films like Hal Ashby's Coming Home and Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter and in the 80s; there was Stanley ...

Pros: A flawed but brilliant masterpiece.
Cons: Marlon Brando (although his scenes work better in this new cut).

The events of the last twenty-four hours have shocked and stunned me as much as they have the rest of the nation. All of a sudden, my difficulties with my new kabuki musicalization of The Last Seduction seem so petty and unimportant. Being the...

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Apocalypse Now Redux is a deeply flawed masterpiece from Francis Ford Coppola. You might wonder how "deeply flawed" and "masterpiece" can fit so snugly together, and believe me, I wondered the same until I saw this film. On the surface, the film is a ...

Pros: Pure dreamscape genius
Cons: That genius will always be hotly debated

A strip of Vietnamese forest sways gently in the early evening breeze. Yellow flare smoke drifts lazily across the screen as American helicopters circle overhead, invisible but for the stuttering menace of their whirring propeller blades.
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Pros: The original theatrical cut footage is still extremely powerful and effective.
Cons: The 49 minutes of additional footage almost destroys the flow of the movie.

Let me start off by saying that the original theatrical 153 minute cut of the 1979 classic Apocalypse Now is one of my personal picks for one of the top 10 best movies of all time. I was always disappointed that I never got to see the movie in a...

Pros: The Story, The Acting, The Direction, The One-liners, The Horror, almost everything.
Cons: Some of the additional footage wasn't needed.

Apocalypse Now: Redux (2001) Martin Sheen as Capt. Benjamin Willard Marlon Brando as Col. Walter Kurtz Robert Duvall as Lt. Col. Kilgore Frederic Forrest as Jay 'Chef' Hicks Albert Hall as Chief Phillips Laurence Fishburne as Tyrone 'Clean' ...

Pros: Everything that made Apocalypse Now so good is still here
Cons: a couple of useless scenes, length

Apocalypse Now, Francis Coppola's 1979 Vietnam classic, was too good to just be left alone, and I guess that is the reasoning behind Apocalypse Now Redux, which features 53 minutes of additional footage. The original movie is loosely based on...

Pros: All of the original masterpiece is still there!
Cons: In 2001, Coppola thinks more is more. It's not.

Kids, a tip: if you ever make something hailed as a masterpiece—don’t mess with it! This is the hard and obvious lessoned learned with Apocalypse Now Redux, the unedited version of the 1979 classic, one that many consider to be the...

Pros: My new #1 film, excellent scenery, dialogue, acting.
Cons: Very long.

I guess I'll have to confess to you all this... I still have not seen the original version of Apocalypse Now, but since I own the DVD for the Redux version, and that tells you what scenes are new, and which aren't, its looking to me as if the Redux ...

Pros: Outstanding writing, directing, cinematography and acting, to name a few.
Cons: The new scenes don't add to the film.

I am not a huge fan of war films. For this reason, I avoided watching "Apocalypse Now" for a long time. As most film students, I am at least familiar with the history of the making of the film. Coppola spent years on the film, he spent his fortune on the...

Pros: The new scenes are a wonderful addition to an old classic
Cons: The film is approx. 192 min long which may be a stretch for some fans.

Right from the start Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now seemed cursed. They were months passed their scheduled date to finish shooting (scheduled to be six weeks, they didn’t wrap until well over a year) largely due to typhoon wiping out their sets....

Pros: Can't get the music out of your head
Cons: Looking at Kurtz makes one doubt the goodness of God.

How fortunate Caucasians were in the nineteenth century! Most of them couldn't even imagine that in the words of Malcolm X, what they were doing around the world would eventually come home to roost, and that this would be what the twentieth century was...