Scary

Rating: Null/10 (10 April 1999)

This is one of the creepiest films I've ever seen. What starts off as a fairly standard Vietnam war film slowly transforms into a surrealistic nightmare that makes me crawl. When Sheen and his boys find Kurtz and his tribal home, I had trouble believing that the earlier scenes are part of the same movie. The battle scene at the bridge is by far the most chaotic and disturbing battle scene ever made, and perfectly points out how random and hopeless war is. I am one of the people who think Marlon Brando's requests and...immature attitude actually benefited his part. After all the buildup in the movie, would it really make sense to film him in anything other than shadows? His semi ad-libbed dialog also helped by giving the impression that the Colonel had to struggle to make his thought coherent enough to form a sentence. Overall this is the most atypical war movies ever and all of it's aspects fit together perfectly.