What can I say about this film?? Brutally INSANE!

Rating: 10/10 (16 April 2013)

Coppola already showed us his vision of the American Mafia in "The Godfather" (family and honor above the business), now in "Apocalypse Now" he show's his vision of the Vietnam War (pure insanity). This leads to the problem of how can I even begin to comment on the film. Comment technical aspects, the performances; the superb script, everything is so PERFECT!
Francis Ford Coppola is best known as a director, but he is a total genius on writing as he was as a director, I said "was" in the past, because while making this film his seems to have exhausted all creative brain cells in his head (compared with the films he does today), but the sacrifice was worth it. We have a script that is so insane and disturbing as it is on screen, but the involvement of Coppola on the script injected a narrative that reflects exactly the war.
The story is set during the Vietnam War, when Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) is sent on a dangerous mission into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade colonel (Marlon Brando) who defined himself as a God among a local tribe. During this journey we see the spectacle that Coppola planned from the beginning, we see a little of everything War; Adventure; Sex; Partnership, a bit of humor, all coated in a script and scenario that are simply spectacular, and as I said before, INSANE.
When Coppola says: "This film is not about Vietnam - is Vietnam" he's right. What began as a patriotic war to defeat Communist aggression, changed America's view of the world and of himself and world view of America is the beauty of the folly of Apocalypse Now, which makes it a masterpiece of film and says more in its running time on the brutality of the conflict and hypocrisy of politicians. "Apocalypse Now" is the "Insane Masterpiece" of cinema!