Well made, but not a 10

Rating: 8/10 (11 May 2008)

This movie gives me mixed feelings.
I liked it but didn't love it The basic plot is this: Colonel Walter Kurtz (Marlon Brando) has taken his army and vanished off the map. The army sends Captain Benjamin Willard (Martin Sheen) to bring Kurtz to justice. He is joined by a small crew consisting of Chief Phillips (Albert Hall), Chef (Frederic Forrest), Clean (Laurence Fishburne), and Lance (Sam Bottoms). As they get closer to their destination, they start to run into crazier and crazier people. Eventually meeting the king of crazy himself.
The acting here was all great. Martin Sheen was excellent as Willard. Robert Duvall was entertaining as the slightly insane Col. Kilgore. A young Laurence Fishburne gave a great performance as Clean. Frederic Forrest was fun to watch as Chef. Albert Hall was good as Chief Phillips. Sam Bottoms was also very good as Lance. Dennis Hopper was very good as the increasingly insane Photojournalist. Harrison Ford was great in the small role of Colonel Lucas. And Marlon Brando was pretty good as Kurtz, not quite his best part ever though.
The story was pretty dark. Everyone started off normal but grew more and more insane, and this is where I started to lose interest. There was far too much insanity and it began to not make sense at all.
Over all, pretty good but I prefer Platoon over this.
8/10