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Apocalypse Now

  • 8.4 /10

  • 9011

  • 91%

Plot

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.

Cast

Martin Sheen as Captain Benjamin Willard
Martin Sheen

as Captain Benjamin Willard

Marlon Brando as Colonel Walter Kurtz
Marlon Brando

as Colonel Walter Kurtz

Frederic Forrest as Jay 'Chef' Hicks
Frederic Forrest

as Jay 'Chef' Hicks

Albert Hall as Chief Phillips
Albert Hall

as Chief Phillips

Laurence Fishburne as Tyrone 'Clean' Miller
Laurence Fishburne

as Tyrone 'Clean' Miller

Sam Bottoms as Lance B. Johnson
Sam Bottoms

as Lance B. Johnson

Robert Duvall as Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore
Robert Duvall

as Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore

G.D. Spradlin as General Corman
G.D. Spradlin

as General Corman

Harrison Ford as Colonel
Harrison Ford

as Colonel

Jerry Ziesmer as Jerry, Civilian
Jerry Ziesmer

as Jerry, Civilian

Movie Facts

Rated

  • R

Status

  • Released

Release Date

  • May 19, 1979

Production Companies

  • American Zoetrope

Production Countries

  • United States of America

Spoken Language

  • English

  • Français

  • Tiếng Việt

Budget

  • $31,500,000.00

Revenue

  • $150,000,000.00

Runtime

  • 2.45 hrs

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Reviews

**Ponderous, meandering epic with a few bright spots.** This film is about a soldiers quest to find a renegade and insane Colonel (a bald Brando in an extended cameo) who has hidden himself away in the depths of the jungle and is causing all manner of commotion. Quite what it was - I can't remember, but it _was_ important enough to go down stream in search of him. Sheen's character decide…

I think a lot of people who think this film is a classic are deranged, the only memorable scene in the film is when they drop exploding napalm and the guy in the hat says "I love the smell of napalm in the morning", the rest of the film is a completely boring bombshell and it's like the film was high on drugs as there's this one part where people are butchering a cow in the most grotesque way pos…

***One of the greatest films ever made*** The original "Apocalypse Now" is an awe-inspiring masterpiece and is my all-time favorite film. Memorable scenes abound, starting with the mind-blowing opening with Willard (Martin Sheen) having a mental breakdown in his sweltering Saigon hotel room to the tune of The Doors' "The End." Speaking of Sheen, people overlook the fact that he expertly car…