Strange, Tedious, and Confusing

Rating: 5/10 (2 June 1999)

Most people that I know hailed Apocalypse Now as the greatest and strongest war film ever made, however I have a slightly different approach to this film. As it said in that above title, this entire movie is weird, it seems to drag on struggling for greatness, but it never quite gets there. The whole film is based on Martin Sheen hunting down Marlon Brando to terminate with extreme prejudice. But so much time is wasted on such unnecessary factors, such as Brando's character development, and the Playboy bunnies who entertain the soldiers in Vietnam, a scene that seemed to come out of nowhere. To be fair, this is not at all a bad film, but I believe that it is the film's own excesses that drag it down, failing to achieve the goal that it so desperately wants to achieve.