Beautiful cinematography

Rating: 7/10 (2 February 2017)

During the Vietnam war, a soldier is sent on a mission to assassinate a renegade commander that has established himself as a god among the local tribes.
The directing of Francis Coppola is genius with beautiful cinematography. Martin Sheen was an excellent choice for the lead. The editing is very well done that one can feel the tension rising during the progress of the film while they go up the river searching for the renegade, every sound and music complement that tension rising, but when they reach their destination, that final part is a let down, for I was expecting to see the madness and monstrosity of that renegade so talked about throughout the movie, but Marlon Brando's performance for that role was weak and a bad choice, and it seems above all a flaw in the script about the characterization of his persona.
About the Redux version, it was nothing more than a deceitful marketing strategy, because the almost 1 hour of new scenes add nothing worthwhile to the story, they cut the flow of the rising tension and ultimately make it a worse movie.
Original: 7/10
Redux: 5/10