A bit overrated but still enjoyable

Rating: Null/10 (28 April 2002)

Francis Ford Coppola's take on the Vietnam war was a good one but a little overrated.
Martin Sheen gives a stellar performance as Captain Willard, an American soldier sent on a dangerous mission to Cambodia with orders to kill a renegade Colonel Kurtz(Marlon Brando), who is the head of a secret military outpost. Willard's superiors inform him that Kurtz was a successfull Green Beret leader and has performed murderous strikes without permission from a higher authority.
As for my favorite Vietnam movies, APOCALYPSE NOW ranks third behind FULL METAL JACKET and PLATOON. The REDUX edition of this film, which was the one I saw, contains an extra hour of deleted footage from the original film. It was hard to sit through certain scenes that you knew were added. Besides that, the acting was great especially Martin Sheen's and the ending was very powerful. Maybe if I had seen the original version, I might have enjoyed this film a little more. Other than that, good flick. 3 1/2 out of 5 stars.