War masterpiece

Rating: 9/10 (27 March 2017)

The story follows the journey of Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) who accepts the mission of travelling to Cambodia and "terminate with extreme prejudice" the rogue Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando). According to the military, Kurtz has gone insane and was killing American soldiers and he was praised by the local tribe as some kind of god.
At first, Willard thought that the mission would be plain simple. But after seeing Kurtz' "war resumé", he Wonders how such a great man could go mad and betray his nation.
But his walk through the war zone shows him how a man can descend to insanity. It was unfair to judge a man insane when the horrors of war turned everyone mad and it was unfair to condemn a man of murdering when that doesn't make difference during a war.
When he finally meets Kurtz, he is realizes that the Colonel wasn't seeking revenge nor made a change of heart. Kurtz was looking for Peace after he experienced the horrors of war and wants to Willard to kill him.
Francis Ford Coppola has created a war masterpiece. The only flaw is the runtime of 3 and a half hours (I only watched the redux version).