Apocalypse Ego.

Rating: 1/10 (5 December 2008)

Praise all that is holy that others hate this as much as I do. What a bunch of self-indulgent, bloated trash. It's one of those films people insist they love to appear cultured and intelligent. No, people, it isn't a fascinating insight into the mental scars that war leaves on the minds of men, or some other left-wing crap like that. It's a poncy director with an ego of such magnitude that it has it's own gravity spewing the usual "war is hell" crap.
I almost survived this movie when Robert Duvall appeared, I thought "finally, a likable, insane character who will be funny to watch." then, after like 30 seconds of screen time, he is gone, and just becomes a sad old codger wanting his surfboard back. Like stealing an old man's teeth just so he ineffectually asks for them back.
The politics of the US at the time obviously formed the film in part, and I'm with Cartman on this one, I HATE hippies, and this film is just a hippy with far too much money saying "we should all just get along man, and in the meantime, marvel at my depth, artistry and intelligence. Peace." A war gets televised, people eating their TV dinners see that people actually get killed when countries fall out, and suddenly you have a bunch of naive, pig ignorant celebrities siding with the opposition, an opposition that on winning the war, proceed to slaughter millions of men women and children in the Cambodian holocaust.
Bunch of damn John Lennons. "Imagine there're no possessions. Oh, haven't seen the keys to my sports car and swish apartment in new york have you?"