Redux or not Redux?

Rating: 10/10 (19 December 2001)

Apocalypse Now is such a great movie that it's impossible for me to talk about it, it's too beautiful!! So why should I write a comment, you might say? To talk about the differences between the long version and the classic one. Because the classic Apocalypse, the one released in 1979, is not only a masterpiece, but one of the greatest movies of all time, in the same category of "2001: A Space Odissey" or "Taxi Driver". Instead, the so-called Redux version (197 minutes) is "only" a great, amazing movie a bit too long. The added scenes aren't so fundamental to the plot and the structure of the movie, and the soundtrack chosen to accompany them, in particular the scene with the French, is incredibly poorer than the rest of the auditive experience. Only the episode of Kilgore's surfboard adds some enjoyable laugh. Check the brief one, that's the real masterpiece.