Fresh
A film of pure sensation, dazzling audiences with light and noise, laying bare the stark horror - and unimaginable thrill - of combat.
Tom Huddleston, Time Out
Overview
At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.
Director and cast
- Francis Ford Coppola Director
- Martin Sheen as Captain Benjamin L. Willard
- Marlon Brando as Colonel Walter E. Kurtz
- Frederic Forrest as Jay 'Chef' Hicks
- Albert Hall as Chief Phillips
- Laurence Fishburne as Tyrone 'Clean' Miller
- Sam Bottoms as Lance B. Johnson
- Robert Duvall as Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore
- Harrison Ford as Colonel Lucas
- G. D. Spradlin Cast
- Jerry Ziesmer Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
90%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Alternately a brilliant and bizarre film, Francis Coppola's four year 'work in progress' offers the definitive validation to the old saw, 'war is hell.'
Dale Pollock, Variety
Fresh
...it's wonderful to see this hallucinatory folly-cum-near masterpiece again on the big screen.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Fresh
Apocalypse Now did help provide me, and many of my generation, with a vision of what film art could achieve, a vision so magnificent it doomed us to spend much of our subsequent moviegoing lives in a funk.
Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle
Fresh
...Coppola's sprawling, harrowing war story is not to be missed.
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
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