Either love or hate movie. I loved it.

Rating: Null/10 (13 August 2003)

Apocalypse Now is a mind-opening, eriee, powerful, awesome, mind blowing, classic masterpiece. Some people hate it or love it.It shows what war does to people. It changes them alot. It shows darkness people can get or use. It seems that insanity in "Nam" is just a state of mind. Coppola's direction and filming takes a dark, yet powerful look at the war. Some of it seems unreal. It shows that anyone could go insane in conditions like those in the movie. I certainly would.
The actors do a great job in the movie.
A young Martin Sheen plays Captain Willard, who always wants to go back in the jungle.
Marlon Brando plays Col. Kurtz who is lost in his own mind or land. The realities in war turn him from a top of the line solider into a poetic insane man.
Robert Duvall is the hard-headed Col. Kilgore. He yells alot but that's understandable. He sure loves those tree-lines bombed. His napalm speech stands out in my mind. His way of watching the war is unreal. He reminds me of Oddball (Donald Sutherland) in Kelly's Heroes.
Dennis Hopper plays the photojournalist. His role in the movie seems strangely perfect. I don't know why.
Some scenes stick out in my mind. The start of the film when the trees are blow up with The Doors playing The End is great. The helicopter attack with the music is better. Somehow, battles have always gone good with music. Kilgore with his bodycards.
But.... My brother bought the Redux version. I found it too long in some scenes, like the playboy bunnies. The nudity was alright, not great. The french plantion was too long.
Overall the movie is great. Probably the best anti-war/war movie there is. If they relaunched it today, it would stand out. It's so different from the chick-flicks. A classic. I give it a 9.5 out of ten. It is on my favourite of all time movie list.
Before I say goodbye. One quote from the movie describes the war.

"You're fighting for the biggest nothing in the world"