Wow, wow, wow, wow

Rating: 9/10 (24 November 2001)

It may have taken three years to make and nearly twenty five years for us to see it in all it's glory but god it's good! Francis Ford Coppola's surreal, disturbing and controversially realistic depiction of the vietnam war and it's effects is one of the most visually stunning pieces of cinema....ever. Brando is, as usual, excellent as Colonel Kurtz. Sheen puts in the performance of a lifetime as Captain Willard and Robert Duvall steals the show in his short screen time as loopy col. Kilgore. His "I love the smell of napalm in the morning..." speech is the single greatest film quote in cinema history, and I challenge you to find one better. The rest of it isn't bad either.