The Redux spoiled the original

Rating: 10/10 (23 January 2008)

I love the original Apocalypse Now, this is the Francis Coppola movie I saw, I love the director immediately. 20 years later, the Redux of AN came out, I was delighted to see some of the extra footages in it. But I had to say, I was disappointed, the Redux brought nothing to the movie except boredom, irrationality, and extreme length. The point of AN has gone and I felt like watching a complete mess. The scene Willard and his guys trade their fuel for bunnies is so ludicrous that made me laugh so hard, I paused a minute to calm myself down. The French Plantation scene was too long to watch, even though I have a long attention span, I still couldn't watch it through. After such loooooooong time, I totally lost my interest in seeing the Redux, I turned my TV off right before they got to Col.Kurtz. Francis Coppola cut out those scenes for good reasons and now he addded them again? I have to say this is my first time I was let down by Francis Ford Coppola.