This is truly filmmaking at it's best.

Rating: 10/10 (14 July 2012)

Francis ford Coppola 'Apocalypse now' is an authentic experience, an experience that i wish i could've been a part of during it's time at the cinema, but nevertheless i attempt to recreate it's surrealistic sensation through my home theater because this film encapsulates you into it's atmosphere of a journey into the physcological depths of the Vietnam war like no other.
The story revolves around captain Willard who is ordered by his superiors to assassinate an American renegade colonel.
'Apocalypse now' is visually one of the best films ever made. Each sequence contains a beautifully contrasts of colors with continues beautiful set pieces which enormously contributes to the film surrealistic and physcological mood. There are three particular sequences that display this brilliantly, first the opening sequence with the slight noise of the helicopters and explosions inter-wined with 'the end' establishes the mood like no other, the 'Ride of the Valkyries' attack is simply one of the best battle sequences committed to celluloid and the 'do long bridge' conveys a surrealistic nightmare.
The characters also contribute to the films mood and atmosphere. At first we are introduced to Willard who is already mental unstable however the other individuals that occupy Willard through the river seem quite normal at first until they slowly descend deeper into the clutches of the jungle, as the river works brilliantly at metaphorically representing the decent into madness.
Like many masterpeices, 'Apocalpyse now' will withstand the clutches of the time because it's a film that gives your more than just an exercise in watching but creates an authentic and surrealistic expericence like no other film I have seen before.
'Apocalpyse now' is filmmaking at it's best.