Gives to cinema what Shakespeare gave to the stage, and what Dickens gave to literature

Rating: 10/10 (23 March 2004)

Apocalypse Now is based on a "short" story written by Joseph Conrad. This tale is of a man who boats up the Congo River to kill a colonel named Kurtz. Oh, and it was written in the late 1800s. Curious that it is set on a different continent and about a hundred years later, during the peak of the Vietnam War. Apocalypse Now follows one soldier's mission to kill a rampaging colonel. The highway for the movie is the river leading up through Vietnam to Cambodia. Apocalypse is not about Vietnam, but about human instinct and the endless possibilities of insanity a man can reach. Francis Ford Copolla gives to the cinema what Shakespeare gave to the stage.