This film is virtually perfect, the only flaw being it's length.

Rating: 10/10 (5 August 2001)

Though the film may be slow, not a single frame is wasted to tell the story and message that Coppola wanted to tell. It's almost 3.5 hours long. That just causes WAY too much pain on the ass (-1). Visually it's amazing (+2), sound is amazing (+2), acting is amazing (+2), the story is just SO intense (+2). My favorite scenes will always be with the Surfing Air-Cav (+2) featuring Robert Duvall. Again the credits were handed out as a flyer, tho this time there actually was a reel of credits at the end. You can tell its out of place because after the final fade out there is a copyright statement in the bottom left corner. Similar to the copyrights you see on photographs. There still are no opening credits. I wont go into what the movie is about. It's not professional, but I'm not getting paid. I will note a couple things. The movie is as intense and shocking today, as it was 22 years ago. The story is the same, with a couple key development scenes restored. These scenes add a little more humanity to the boys on the boat. A couple of the scenes are humorous, and one brings our assassin to earth. The best thing about this film is the recurring theme of the film: The chaos and insanity of war. Almost every scene starts, how "it should" be, normal, then through intensity and/or chaos everything goes to hell. Pretty much what war is like. The moral issues that are brought up follow this cycle of destruction.