One of the All Time Greatest War Films!

Rating: 10/10 (10 June 2015)

Apocalypse Now (1979): Dir: Frances Ford Coppola / Cast: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Dennis Hopper, Frederic Forrest: Perhaps the most powerful of all war films. Director Frances Ford Coppola claimed that this film wasn't about Vietnam, it was Vietnam. At any rate, he creates a masterpiece. It is the gruelling story of an emotionally tormented Lieutenant whose mission is to "terminate with extreme prejudice" a Colonel who was responsible for the deaths of Vietnamese leaders. This will involve a journey by water to Cambodia where the Colonel dwells. Another achievement by Coppola who also made The Godfather and The Conversation. Martin Sheen does a tremendous job as a Lieutenant torn between the life he left and the hell he's drawn too. Marlon Brando delivers a powerful performance as the Colonel thrown between greatness and insanity. Robert Duvall plays a crazed Lieutenant who barely flinches at turmoil, and appears more interested in surfing the waves during a violent raid. Dennis Hopper plays an unstable photographer who appears completely strung up on drugs and devoid of any form of reality as he chants to Sheen about the gruesome society around him. Frederic Forrest play Chef, whose passion for cooking leads to a jungle search for mangos and an encounter with a tiger. Tremendous masterpiece about the horror that war truly is. Score: 10 / 10