Mixed Feelings (Redux Version)

Rating: Null/10 (8 January 2003)

insanity, colonialism, cold war, death, life, desire, reality, fear, duty, etc. all of these subjects get a a part in Apocalypse Now, all of them are interestig and are also well developed. but they tend to be too developed, enough for a +3 hours movie. it is waaaaay too long and slow to move on, i believe coppola made some scenes longer deliverately because he just wanted to. i didn't like brando as the mad man rogue colonel (and check out the trivia he probably didn't like it either), but dennis hopper and robert duvall give the best performances in Apoc, specially duvall and his chopper assault, by far the best scene of the movie.
you were suppose to hate kurtz and consider him just a mad man who had to be stopped. you are to love kilgore for his way of watching the whole war (basically it meant moving to the next position to find the better waves) and his behaviour towards the enemy. but it is not clear what to say about willard.
it was a mistake to make the kurtz's stronghold scenes so long, and not to include the french farm part which thankfully was in the redux version and showed a third point of view about vietnam.
i bet coppola could have made this movie far more interesting and catching if he had wanted to.