Outstanding

Rating: 10/10 (18 November 2007)

I'm a high school senior and we analyzed this movie after reading "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad in my Advanced Placement Literature and Composition. Apocalypse Now is taken directly from HoD and transformed to be more understandable to a more modern society. My class stayed after school and watched this movie, completely amazed that someone was able to take such a dark and foreboding novel, (especially with its symbolism, plot, and statement,) and turn it into a movie without taking anything away from it. I would highly recommend this movie to anyone that would care to do any introspection or even learn something about humanity. Brando does a spectacular performance as Kurtz and I applaud him for his presentation of his character. Sheen does an amazing job as well with his character. The casting was done magnificently and the angst of the time and story was portrayed splendidly. Outstanding.