What a fuss.

Rating: Null/10 (31 January 2004)

I saw this film when it first came out but couldn't remember a thing about it. Having seen it again yesterday, I understood the amnesia.

It is dull, dull, dull. Even the infrequent war scenes were nothing to write to the Academy about. And, yes, I am aware that this film was made nearly 25 years ago and, no, I'm not judging it by today's standards of technology. I'm judging it by the (relatively-)timeless standard of film storytelling.

It seems incoherent, meandering, with no real point to it, apart from the pointlessness of war. Was that the point? If so, why did it take Coppola so long to make it?