Apocalypse Now Redux |  | Actors: Sam Bottoms, Marlon Brando, Bo Byers, Colleen Camp, Robert Duvall
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
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Rating:  725 reviews
Sales Rank: 12929
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Original recording remastered, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 153 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 0.6
ISBN: 0792178300
UPC: 097360962949
EAN: 9780792178309
ASIN: B00005OWEG
Theatrical Release Date: August 15, 1979
Release Date: November 20, 2001
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In the tradition of such obsessively driven directors as Erich von Stroheim and Werner Herzog, Francis Ford Coppola approached the production of Apocalypse Now as if it were his own epic mission into the heart of darkness. On location in the storm-ravaged Philippines, he quite literally went mad as the project threatened to devour him in a vortex of creative despair, but from this insanity came one of the greatest films ever made. It began as a John Milius screenplay, transposing Joseph Conrad's classic story "Heart of Darkness" into the horrors of the Vietnam War, following a battle-weary Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) on a secret upriver mission to find and execute the renegade Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), who has reverted to a state of murderous and mystical insanity. The journey is fraught with danger involving wartime action on epic and intimate scales. One measure of the film's awesome visceral impact is the number of sequences, images, and lines of dialogue that have literally burned themselves into our cinematic consciousness, from the Wagnerian strike of helicopter gunships on a Vietnamese village to the brutal murder of stowaways on a peasant sampan and the unflinching fearlessness of the surfing warrior Lieutenant Colonel Kilgore (Robert Duvall), who speaks lovingly of "the smell of napalm in the morning." Like Herzog's Aguirre: The Wrath of God, this film is the product of genius cast into a pit of hell and emerging, phoenix-like, in triumph. Coppola's obsession (effectively detailed in the riveting documentary Hearts of Darkness, directed by Coppola's wife, Eleanor) informs every scene and every frame, and the result is a film for the ages. --Jeff Shannon
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Digitally remastered with 49 minutes of previously unseen footage, Apocalypse Now Redux is the reference standard of Francis Coppola's 1979 epic. A metaphorical hallucination of the Vietnam War, the film was reconstructed by Coppola and editor Walter Murch to enrich themes and clarify the ending. On that basis Redux is a qualified success, more coherent than the original while inviting the same accusations of directorial excess. The restored "French plantation" sequence adds ghostly resonance to the war's absurdity, and Willard's theft of Colonel Kurtz's beloved surfboard adds welcomed humor to the film's nightmarish upriver journey. An encounter with Playboy Playmates seems superfluous compared to the enhanced interplay between Willard and his ill-fated boat crew, but compensation arrives in the hellish Kurtz compound, where Willard's mission--and the performances of Martin Sheen and Marlon Brando--reach even greater heights of insanity, thus validating Redux as the rightful heir to Coppola's triumphantly rampant ambition. --Jeff Shannon
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 apocalypsenaow January 29, 2010
Samuel P. Timberger (PORT JERVIS, NY, US)
i originally was going to return it but it was so neat i kept it.
 Each Movie Version is split between TWO discs January 19, 2010
Stache Man (Sykesville, Maryland United States)
This would be a 5 star, except for one thing. Each movie is spilt between two discs! So no matter which version you watch, you have to stop halfway and take out disc one and insert disc two, to continue watching. Obviously there is enough room on the discs that they could have put each movie on a separate disc. Poor planning and somewhat irritating with a movie that is as mesmorizing at this one it. Disrupts your concentration big time!
Apocalypse NOW January 17, 2010
Dinkins (Maryland USA)
Everything that you could want in this movie..Only problem is both the original and REDUX version are spread out over 2 discs so you have to change discs to see the complete movies..Other than that very enjoyable..THE HORROR, THE HORROR..
Apocalypse Now January 3, 2010
feminamaxima (West River, MD United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Got the delivery in good time. Had to review this movie for a college course and it was not available throught Netflix, delayed disc, so I had to purchase. Not that it really mattered. It is a classic and probably would have ended up owning it anyway.
Best war movie ever December 27, 2009
Dimy Fluyau (Miami, Florida)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This movie is fabulous.It takes you from the beginning to the end without breath.
At the end you ask yourself: Why?
What is our limit in following order? See the "Milgram experiment" you will understand Apocalypse Now better.
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