I’d say this feels like the ultimate film about the Vietnam War. Martin Sheen portrays “Capt. Willard,” an exhausted soldier tasked with a covert assignment: locating and neutralizing Colonel 'Kurtz" (Marlon Brando), who's acting on his own in Cambodia. Accompanied by a small group of inexperienced soldiers, he begins traveling up the perilous Nung River, encountering "Kilgore" (Robert Duvall) along the way, and conf…

It wasn’t merely insanity and murder; there was plenty of that to be found for everyone involved. Francis Ford Coppola directed Apocalypse Now, also co-adapting the screenplay with John Milius from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. The film features Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Laurence Fishburne, Dennis Hopper, Harrison Ford, Frederic Forrest, Sam Bottoms and Albert Hall. Vittorio Storaro handled …

This is one of the greatest films ever made. The original "Apocalypse Now" remains an awe-inspiring masterpiece and my all-time favorite movie. There are so many memorable moments, beginning with the striking opening scene featuring Willard (Martin Sheen) experiencing a mental breakdown in his sweltering Saigon hotel room while The Doors’ “The End” plays. Speaking of Sheen, it's often overlooked how effectively…

It seems to me that those who consider this movie a classic might be mistaken; the one scene that sticks with me is the napalm sequence with the line about loving the smell in the morning. Everything else felt incredibly dull and meandering, giving the impression that whoever made it was out of their mind—there's a particularly disturbing scene where they’re brutally dismembering a cow...it really offended me. The…

The movie tells the story of a soldier’s journey to locate a disaffected and unstable Colonel—played by a bald Marlon Brando in a brief appearance—who has retreated into the jungle, creating problems. The specifics of what he did are hazy, though it was evidently significant enough to warrant an expedition downriver to find him. The protagonist sets off with his unit to track down this eccentric figure before thin…