Coppola is clueless

Rating: 7/10 (29 November 2002)

Great cinematography but thatÂ´s all you get. Sight & Sound voted this the best modern movie and yet Apocalypse Now is one helluva mess of a film, completely inconsistent and incoherent. IÂ´ve heard that Coppola tries to be objective in all of his movies. Unfortunately he forgets that objectivity can only be reached by means of subjectivity. To make a social commentary you also need to show the causality but Coppola doesnÂ´t even try. These are extremely simple facts, basics of life. Too bad that most of us donÂ´t get it.
Watch Platoon instead.