Excellent

Rating: 10/10 (28 February 2008)

I love war movies. Platoon, Saving Private Ryan, Black Hawk Down I love em, but this movie stands tall in the war genre definitely. This movie is a study of not only the horrors of war but the study of the human soul. Martin Sheen puts out a performance of brilliance which his son Charlie echoed 7 years later in Platoon. Marlon Brando, my favorite actor is constantly ripped on by people for his performance but he played a psycho really well. Kurtz is totally and utterly insane without a shadow of a doubt and he played a loon great. His death was the highlight of the movie which was inter cut with a slaughter of an ox. Powerful stuff. Some of my favorite actors are situated here, Ford, Fishburne, Duvall, Marty Sheen and the Big M. What a cast of legends. A movie that no-one should miss. 9/10