Great war epic from Coppola

Rating: 8/10 (11 August 2006)

Coppola's masterful war film about a Vietnam war captain(Sheen) who is on a mission to kill a renegade green beret who has set himself up as a leader of a local tribe in Cambodia. The film is written well by JOhn Milius and Francis Ford Coppola, directed beautifully by the master director who did his best work in the 70s and this one was his last film of the decade (although in my eyes 83' film Outsiders was brilliant as well). Apocalypse now is a long, detailed, poetic account of the story inspired by Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness novel. The cast is great in this film, Brando, Duvall and Hopper are all great while the best performance came from Martin Sheen in the lead. It was also nice to see Harrison Ford, Laurence Fishburne and Scott Glenn in supporting roles. I liked the cinematography from Vittorio Storaro, and the musical pieces as well. The film was well done in all, a great war film. --- IMDb Rating: 8.5, my rating: 9/10