Just about as classic as it gets

Rating: 10/10 (13 October 2002)

The Doors' "The End" playing as the jungle is bombed. Kilgore's infamous line "I love the smell of napalm in the morning." The dawn attack of the Vietnamese village with "Ride of the Valkyries" blasting.
These are just a few of the great many classic scenes in 'Apocalypse Now' that help make this movie such a legend.
I've never seen Martin Sheen match his performance in this film as Willard. Laurence Fishburne essentially gets his feet wet as Mr. Clean. Robert Duvall is superb as the emotionally hardened Kilgore. Dennis Hopper portrays the crazed American photographer just as that role should have been. Harrison Ford gives a brief yet commendable cameo. And Marlon Brando is chilling as the psychotic Kurtz, with one of the most memorable lines in the film: "The horror...the horror."
Although it doesn't directly portray the war, this has got to be one of the greatest war movies of all time, if not THE greatest, period. As much as I love 'Black Hawk Down,' not even that can compare.
If you're one of the few unfortunate souls who hasn't seen 'Apocalypse Now Redux' - it's time to get yourself educated.