Possibly one of the greatest films ever made

Rating: 10/10 (28 August 2003)

Loosely based on Conrad's Heart of Darkness' This is a stunning,disturbing and even sometimes humorous look at the insanity of war and mankind's dark side. As well as being one of the greatest war films ever made it is also a study of insanity similar to 'Aguirre Wrath of God' (1973) and is one of only about 3 films that totally stunned me when I first saw it. Brilliantly staged and both chilling and memorizing it delivers amazing action and characters where we we see the animal that lurks in all of us and, in Kilgore in particular, we see the ultimate human insanity: the fact that we deep down enjoy killing and destruction.