If it walks like a redux and it talks like a redux........

Rating: 10/10 (23 July 2002)

Look...what hasn't been said about this movie..just writing because I watched "Redux" again for about the fifth time (add that to the countless views of the original version) and still can't get over how the French Plantation scene was ever excised from the original cut..It's a brilliant reduction of history that explains the roots of the Vietnam War and fleshes out Sheen's character in even greater detail. The addition of the plantation scene plus the tragicomic "Playboy bunnies" trailer sequence and the outright laughs of the extended "surfing" shot just make an already classic film even more powerful. #34 on the IMDb all-time list? Sorry, folks...I liked "Lord of the Rings", too. But let's call a spade a spade, shall we? This one's in a class with Coppola's other 2 little projects (G1 and G2). Let's move this puppy up the list, post-haste!!