Disaster of a movie

Rating: 1/10 (14 August 2006)

What an awful movie. The worst thing of all is the amount of written material and other forms of mystification produced about it. The whole film is based on the terrible misreading of Joseph Conrads brilliant "Heart of Darknes". Coppola turned something which is genuinely a brilliant piece of written fiction into a 3 or more hours of visual disaster. A complex narrative turned into an ordinary kitsch. If there is nothing to understand, it doesn't mean it's masterpiece; it's just stupid. This film is just going nowhere from the beginning to the end. The final scenes, involving Hopper and Brando are the lamest thing I've ever seen. I mean, it's more lame than Troll2: totally bizarre and unmotivated. Read "Heart of Darkness" and you'll see what I'm talking about. From technical aspect film is really marvelous, but the whole concept is so pathetic that nothing can save it. Disaster. 1/10