The Real Horror

Rating: 10/10 (8 May 2014)

With a big name director in Francis Ford Coppola, and such a star studded cast, was there ever any doubt that this film wouldn't blow people away? Drawing influence from the book "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad, this Vietnam War epic was incredible to watch. To me, it is one of those films that I can (and would) watch over and over again, without ever growing tired of it. Martin Sheen and Marlon Brando deliver all star performances, and especially Brando as the mad Colonel Kurtz, make for a chilling ending, with the dying colonel reflecting on the horrors of war, and what they had done to him. The real horror, however, was when the film ended, because I wanted to see more. And to end on a special note, I love the smell of napalm in the morning.