The horror, the horror.....

Rating: 10/10 (20 April 2011)

Francis Ford Coppla, the director of the 1972 gangster classic, The Godfather, takes the viewer on the dark and grim side of war. This is called Apocalypse Now. The movie that will take you deeper into the heart of darkness. Martin Sheen plays Captain Willard, a man who seen the side of the Vietnam War during 1969. Sheen's character is a steady, slow-spoken guy, who seen enough about the war in Vietnam. Very well-known in the business of seeing the dark side of war as he is called upon a mission to assassinates a colonel who turns out to be a god of a tribe. So, Willard and his platoon ventures up the river. This movie shows the dark and grim side of the Vietnam War. Right after the enormous success of The Deer Hunter, which won an Academy Award for Best Picture, Apocalypse Now was another film that explores the dark and realistic side of the Vietnam War since The Deer Hunter. The film became a blockbuster and a classic war movie. Marlon Brando is perfect as Colonel Kurtz, as a insane colonel who has a another grim side of war. Winner of 2 Oscars, for Best Cinematography and Best Sound, Apocalypse Now is the best war about the Vietnam War after The Deer Hunter. ★★★★ 4 stars.