Easily one of the best!!!!

Rating: 10/10 (1 November 2000)

I don't know where to start, other than this movie is one of the best examples of perceptive cinematography and subject matter. I had to like it when I heard "The End" by the Doors, which is my favorite Doors song, and it definitely took vision in how to incorporate a song about the violent blossoming of freedom and the scoring for it! I heard Eleanor Coppola had a lot to do w/ getting this movie finished, hands for her! All the elements in this film help to wield the manic presence that holds the viewer until the release at the end, I can't think of any SPOILERS to use with my comments, but it's my feeling that if anyone is reading this before they see this movie, it's a SPOILER enough. Martin Sheen is drugged, driven and excellent in his performance, Marlon Brando and the film makers were so subtle w/ his character's presence that some people can't sense Colonel Kurtz' engaging and deviation of Captain Willard, in which the Colonel saves the Captain from his doomed end. Watch and you will see that the Colonel was the sacrifice. This little theme, if I remember correctly, is what deviated this movie from Joseph Conrad's book. Francis Ford Coppola and Vittorio Storato aren't the only names who should be praised, everyone who had something to do w/ this film holds my praise for great filmmaking. A 10, hands down!