Like watching a nightmare you once had...

Rating: 10/10 (6 January 2007)

Watching Apocalypse Now has been a bit like watching a nightmare you once had but can't quite figure out. While on a surreal river journey that connects one classic, memorable scene to another, using some of the more daring cinematography I have seen in a war movie (in terms of originality), this movie can expose feelings of loneliness, terror and, maybe worst of all, the fear of learning how meaningless everything might be. Of course, if there is any resolution, its in the journey and each time I re-visit hoping that maybe this time I'll figure out something more. Brando may not have been trying his hardest in this movie, but he was given an almost impossible task at the end. In roughly 2 and a half scenes he had to hold up almost 2 hours of unbelievable hype and suspense. Almost any other performance could have sunk this movie or (maybe worse) rendered it conventional. Here he was what the movie was: dark, intriguing and inaccessible.(Re: Apocalypse Now, 1979)