Apocalypse Now

Rating: 10/10 (11 April 2007)

From my point of view out of all the movies about Vietnam, and there is really a lot of them, this is the best. With its surrealistic approach, it goes a different way than the Vietnam films at that time did. A way that lets the viewer see the absurdity of war even clearer. A war like this can never produce anything good. Soldiers go (or have to go) to a foreign country, they see a culture, which they are not trying to understand, because they feel superior. That's what they have been told: "We are the civilized modern humans, these are uncivilized savages." The soldiers kill or get killed. And for what? That's what Marlon Brando's character General Kurtz means, when he says he's seen "the horror". "Apocalypse Now" is the most philosophical influenced Vietnam war movie with elements from many different genres, the horror film among them. A few words to the Redux version: It's a little bit less dark, a little bit less horror, a lot more of politics. It makes not a better film, but a different one. But still excellent.