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Apocalypse Now

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In Vietnam in 1970, Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) takes a perilous and increasingly hallucinatory journey upriver to find and terminate Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), a once-promising officer who has reportedly gone completely mad. In the company of a Navy patrol boat filled with street-smart kids, a surfing-obsessed Air Cavalry officer (Robert Duvall), and a crazed freelance photographer (Dennis Hopper), Willard travels further and further into the heart of darkness.
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A voyage to hell where the journey is more satisfying than the destination, Francis Ford Coppola's haunting, hallucinatory Vietnam War epic is cinema at its most audacious and visionary.

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Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times Years and years from now, when Coppola’s budget and his problems have long been forgotten, “Apocalypse” will still stand, I think, as a grand and grave and insanely inspired gesture of filmmaking. Rated: 4/4 Sep 23, 2024 Full Review Gene Siskel Chicago Tribune It's precisely in the last 25 minutes that Apocalypse Now dissolves into gibberish. I've seen the film three times with two different endings, and neither ending has been satisfactory. That's because the problem with the picture isn't at its very end. Rated: 2.5/4 Sep 23, 2024 Full Review Bruce McCabe Boston Globe Some critics fault Coppola for not delivering a seamless, flawless film. But this is to misperceive and misread the film in a crucial way. The film by definition couldn't be flawless. It attempts too much. Sep 23, 2024 Full Review Megan Fisher Loud and Clear Reviews It’s an enthralling, powerful miracle of a movie. Jan 11, 2025 Full Review Bill Cosford Miami Herald Though as high art this movie may have its problems, it is a complete movie, a huge piece of work that is at once a technical masterpiece and a thing of lyrical, lethal beauty. This will be the film to see in 1979. Sep 23, 2024 Full Review Jeff Simon Buffalo News Decompression [after leaving the theater] takes a long time. You're still submerged for quite a while in its climate of oppressive sin and maddened dissolution... The parking lot doesn't seem quite like a parking lot. Sep 23, 2024 Full Review Read all reviews

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Tyler L An enthralling and powerful film. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 05/31/25 Full Review Yared S Outstanding filmmaking. When u watching this movie u'wl see soldiers soul. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 05/30/25 Full Review Jamie K My Favorit Movie of all time. It's a you need Movie. Please watch him. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 05/29/25 Full Review PJ T A true psychological thriller that will make you as mad as colonel Kurtz. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 05/29/25 Full Review Nathaniel A I genuinely think that this is the greatest movie of all time; war film or otherwise. It's the best breakdown of the dichotomy of war and humanity that you will ever see. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 05/22/25 Full Review G P I've seen many war movies, this is the best one by far. The movie is long but not a single moment is boring. The only problem with the movie is that it finishes, and that one tiger scene. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 05/22/25 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis In Vietnam in 1970, Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) takes a perilous and increasingly hallucinatory journey upriver to find and terminate Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), a once-promising officer who has reportedly gone completely mad. In the company of a Navy patrol boat filled with street-smart kids, a surfing-obsessed Air Cavalry officer (Robert Duvall), and a crazed freelance photographer (Dennis Hopper), Willard travels further and further into the heart of darkness.
Director
Francis Ford Coppola
Producer
Kim Aubry, Francis Ford Coppola
Screenwriter
Joseph Conrad, John Milius, Francis Ford Coppola, Michael Herr
Distributor
United Artists, Miramax Films, Paramount Pictures
Production Co
Zoetrope Studios
Rating
R
Genre
War, Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Aug 15, 1979, Original
Release Date (Streaming)
Sep 29, 2013
Box Office (Gross USA)
$78.8M
Runtime
2h 27m
Sound Mix
Surround
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