Apocalypse Now

Movie • 1979

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Journey into the heart of darkness during the Vietnam War.

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Surreal and thought-provoking depiction of the Vietnam War, a classic of cinema.

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A surreal journey through the Vietnam War.

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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.

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Roger Ebert

"Years and years from now, when Coppola's budget and his problems have long been forgotten, 'Apocalypse' will still stand, I think, as a grand and grave and insanely inspired gesture of filmmaking."

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Roger Ebert

"Apocalypse Now" strings together one after another, with the river journey as the connecting link.

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The Hollywood Reporter

I can only report that I was held by every minute of its more than two and a half hour playing time, and came away with the firm conviction that this United Artists release is one of the major films of our era.

hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/apocalypse-now-review-movie-1979-1235172359/

The New Yorker

Francis Coppola’s direction breaks it, with long, fluid set pieces of horror, into equivalents of the long, fluid paragraphs of the speech of Conrad’s Marlow.

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Variety

"Apocalypse Now" takes realistic cinema to a new extreme – Coppola virtually creates World War III on screen.

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The Guardian

Finally, Apocalypse Now finds its triumph in restating the inhumanity of empire.

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The A.V. Club

When novice filmmakers John Milius and George Lucas hatched a plan to adapt Joseph Conrad's psychological adventure…

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IMDb

Apocalypse now is not only the best war film ever made but it's also one of the best films of all time...

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