I love the smell of "Apocalypse now" in the morning.

Rating: 9/10 (15 June 1999)

This movie has got to be one of the best Vietnam war movies of all-time. It is definitely my favorite. Although the movie doesn't exactly revolve around the war itself, the story around which it does revolve does show the horrors of the Vietnam war.
The beginning is excellent with Martin Sheen waiting in his room. He's waiting for a mission and he gets one. One that'll probably make him lose the taste of having to go on a mission ever again. He's assigned to take down a crazy American colonel who is called Colonel Kurtz. He lives on an island isolated from any war activity or any possible American invasion. We do not know whether the other people on the island are being held captive or if they are there by their own will.
On his way to the island, Martin Sheen runs into another radical colonel played by the always perfect Robert Duvall. It is during the unfortunately too short scenes with Duvall that we see what the war kind of looked like. A bunch of Vietnamese people living in straw houses and fields being bombed by the Americans. It is during one of the American Napalm-bombing scene that Robert Duvall says "I love the smell of Napalm in the morning".
The killing of Colonel Kurtz (beautifully played by Marlon Brando) by Martin Sheen is purely genius for we have the killing scene of Kurtz and the killing scene od a cow by Kurtz's men outside that are in parallel.
The movie is beautifully well directed by Francis Ford Coppola (The godfather) and greatly acted by Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, and Robert Duvall. I extremely recommended to anybody.