" Horror has a face... and you must make a friend of horror. Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not then they are enemies to be feared."

Rating: Null/10 (15 March 2008)

Truly one of the best war films ever made and certainly the best Vietnam movie ever made. Willard's (Martin Sheen) journey is superficially an action adventure, but obviously more so an allegory of war's insanity and the journey of self-discovery. And when Brando finally makes his appearance, the film becomes a philosophical search for a resolution to the insoluble mysteries of madness and evil. I've rarely seen a film that is so well made. Vittorio Storaro's cinematography is way ahead of its time and the sound AND editing by Walter Murch and company is amazing. Major props to Coppola for his brilliant direction and the cast and the acting couldn't be better. Awesome sequences such as the electrifying opening montage played to The Doors' The End, the epic and breathtaking Ride of Valkyries helicopter attack sequence, the Duvall's "I love the smell of Napalm in the morning" speech" (Duvall almost steals the entire film) , the the terrifying firefight scenes, Dennis Hopper's crazy photojournalist, the spellbinding scene where Brando and Sheen finally meet, Brando's thoughts on horror, and the climax where Sheen finally kills Kurtz once again to The End. Flawless, intense, and staggering cinema, Francis Ford Coppola's film Apocalypse Now is both brilliant and unforgettable.