Sign up for your 2 week free trial

Apocalypse Now (1979)



Write review

4.5 out of 10 Apocalyptic
Michael from Cork, 19 Jan 2009
A tour de force even in the noughties. A young Martin Sheen shows flashes of his acting ability while Brando is mesmerising in the few scenes he is in. It is the countryside that steals the limelight here. Eerie, beautuiful, disconcerting all rolled into one. War at it's unglorified worst.
Was this review helpful to you? 
0 people out of 0 found this review helpful
0 Comments...      leave a comment
4 out of 10 A lunatic's vision of the lunacy of war
Niamh from Louth, 14 Apr 2008
It's a bit of a disjointed mess, but that kind of adds to its appeal. Despite its flaws, brilliant individual performances from Duval, Hopper, Brando et al. make this movie. As a comentary on the lunacy of war, Apocalypse Now is peerless.
Was this review helpful to you? 
0 people out of 0 found this review helpful
0 Comments...      leave a comment
3 out of 10 Just wow.
Peter from Laois, 08 Oct 2009
This is a movie that will move some and leave others unimpressed. I was gobsmacked to see a lanky Harrison Ford, and young Sean Connery. Marlon Brando's part was short but to the point. I would recommend this movie but not to everyone.
Was this review helpful to you? 
0 people out of 0 found this review helpful
0 Comments...      leave a comment
5 out of 10 brilliant
gerard from Dublin, 19 Dec 2007
Easily the best war movie ever made with excellent performances from sheen and brando.
Was this review helpful to you? 
1 people out of 1 found this review helpful
0 Comments...      leave a comment
4.5 out of 10 apocalypse now
Martin from Meath, 16 May 2007
the best war movie of all time.
Was this review helpful to you? 
1 people out of 3 found this review helpful
0 Comments...      leave a comment
  

What's it about....
Francis Ford Coppola's Vietnam epic, loosely based on HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad, tells the story of Captain Willard (Martin Sheen), a special agent sent into Cambodia to assassinate an errant American colonel (Marlon Brando). Willard is assigned a navy patrol boat operated by Chief (Albert Hall) and three hapless soldiers (Frederic Forrest, Sam Bottoms, and Larry Fishburne). They are escorted on part of their journey by an air cavalry unit led by Lt. Colonel Kilgore...

(read more)






CUSTOMER ALSO RENTED
  • View Van Helsing
  • View The Class (2009)
  • View Cindy Crawford: A New Dimension
  • View Flash of Genius
  • View Run Lola Run
  • View Theres Something About Mary
  • View Shutter Island
  • View Desperate Housewives: Series 6
  • View Saw IV (Blu-ray)
  • View Wild At Heart
  • View Man on Wire (Blu-ray)
  • View East is East
  • View 24 Series 7
  • View The 4400 Series 4
  • View I Am Legend (Blu-ray)
  • View Apocalypto
  • View Animal Attraction
  • View Bridget Jones The Edge Of Reason
  • View Little Fockers (Blu-ray)
  • View Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs
  • View The Aviator
  • View Curb Your Enthusiasm Series 2
  • View The Girl From Paris
  • View Elephant (Blu-ray)
  • View Tyrannosaur
  • View Kung Fu Panda 2 (Blu-ray)
  • View Born To Fight
  • View The Night Of The Hunter
  • View Ghost in the Shell
  • View Percy Jackson And The Lightning Thief (Blu-ray)
  • View Sleepless In Seattle
  • View Napoleon Dynamite
  • View Centurion
  • View Battleship Potemkin
  • View Splice
  • View A Bridge Too Far
  • View Nacho Libre (Blu-ray)
  • View Frankenstein
  • View No Country For Old Men (Blu-ray)
  • View Year One (Blu-ray)