Francis Ford Coppola's Vietnam Epic

Rating: 8/10 (18 November 2014)

During the Vietnam War, Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) is sent on a dangerous mission into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade colonel (Marlon Brando) who has set himself up as a god among a local tribe.
This film has an impressive ensemble cast, with a young Harrison Ford, the wild Dennis Hopper, and many others.
What happens when you take "Heart of Darkness", a novella about Africa, and combine it with the Vietnam War, put it in the mind of John Milius and his obsession with surfing (see "Big Wednesday")... somehow you get "Apocalypse Now", a film so epic, and yet epic enough... they had to add even more footage for "Apocalypse Now Redux".