apocalypse now

Rating: 10/10 (16 March 2005)

This is by far the best war movie to have come out yet. As the story progresses you become more engrossed in what is happening to Captian Willard and the crew. The Viewer doesn't feel detached but rather engulfed in the insanity and decreasing mental stability of the men caught up in Vietnam. It also blends images, music, and moods well not to mention has great special effects that look like the movie was filmed during the war. Redux version offers us a little more into the characters. One of my favorite lines in Redux is when the crew asks Willard if he likes it hot while ditching the air cavalry. He replies by saying " it's sure as ---- better than seeing what you can become in some factory in Ohio." Willards journey into the jungle makes him start realizing how Kurtz the renegade colonel has been affected by the war into what seems like insanity but is clarity. " Never get off the boat. Kurtz got off the boat, he split from the whole program." Apocalypse now never gets old and each time you see it you delve deeper into the jungle.