Breath-taking!

Rating: 9/10 (28 November 2002)

War has been the theme of many of the greatest movies of all times, such as Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket", Spielberg's "Saving Private Ryan", Stone's "Platoon" and Coppola's "Apocalypse Now". These films are living examples of Hollywood passion for military conflict, mainly World War II and Vietnam War. It's interesting how we can never ignore this movies, full of battles, shots and explosions.
I'm sure it's not easy for the directors to rule such big projects where a numerous cast is involved and millions of dollars are spent. We can't deny these characteristics attract us, once we realise we have seen all the cited movies lots of times.
"Apocalypse Now" is something we just cannot miss at all. Coppola's direction is wonderful and the cast counts on Marlon Brandon, Robert Duvall, Martin Sheen, Laurence Fishbourne, Dennis Hopper and Harrison Ford. The plot itself is different from anything we have seen in the genre of films: Col. Walter E. Kurtz (Brando) is a dissident officer who lives somewhere in Asia leading his own army and obeying his own laws. This makes Capt. Benjamin L. Willard (Sheen) goes out in a mission to get Kurtz. This itself could be enough to make "Apocalypse Now" great, but then we see the wonderful performances Brando, Duvall and Sheen have. Not to be missed.
My rate 9/10