Not too impressive

Rating: 2/10 (2 May 2008)

Artsy, boring movie: the men sail at the river in the midst of the Vietnam war and search the independently lethal Kurtz. The story and all the characters bore me to tears, including Marlon Brando as Kurtz - yes, he is an independent killer in the midst of the war, ah, the irony! Joseph Conrad's early 20th century novella Heart of the Darkness, set in the brutally exploited, Belgian-ruled concentration camp called Kongo, is now a study of the Vietnam War. No, I have not read the original, so I don't know how faithful adaptation of the original and it's themes this is. But why a real movie has a real-life animal killing a'la -10 exploitation excrement?