This is a movie that will make you think.

Rating: 10/10 (19 July 2005)

This is a great movie that will get your imagination going. Probably the best thing about the movie is Robert Duvall and the surfing scene. Robert Duval stands on the beach and talks about how he loves the smell of napalm in the morning. The helicopters are flying low overhead. The music they listen too on the way in. All these things create what is in my mind one of the best scenes in cinematography. Another thing I like about the movie is what a friend told me about an existential journey. My friend told me that you could almost watch the movie from the standpoint that Martin Sheen's journey to kill Colonel Kurtz was never physical but that it was an existential journey in which Sheen is trying to kill the evil that is currently residing in his head. After I watched the movie again from this viewpoint it was fascinating. Now I know that the writer and director(s) didn't mean for this but I still find it interesting.