AWESOME EPIC GOTTA SEE IT NOW!!!!! but Redux isn't an improvement

Rating: Null/10 (25 May 2002)

Is my favourite film of all time. Seen the original version too many times to count (without going psycho myself) and is truly not the kind of film that will be made again. The scale is just amazing, aside from all the insanity that went on behind the scenes. All would be digital, and the worse for it, if attempted today. So far as the Redux version goes, it DOES add some information, but most new scenes detract from the pace and the relentlessness of the mission. One doesn't always need to know WHY, or HOW, elements come into play. We can provide that with our own imaginations. Coppola seems to be pandering more to his own ego than to the demands of the plot. Nonetheless, still a 100% must see, even if not a fan of war films - just for the insight into insanity, into the dark side that exists within us all, the dreaded unknown waiting in the precipice. And aside from the surround sound, turn off the lights. And the phone. And the mobile.