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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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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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Most helpful customer reviews   6 of 6 people found the following review helpful: A great 2 for 1 deal, Nov 6 2006 By  Keith Solomon (Edmonton, AB, Canada) - See all my reviews    I think the original version of Apocalypse Now is vastly superior to the needlessly long Redux, although the additional scenes of the latter (the French plantation, Playboy bunnies, Willard stealing the surfboard) are interesting in and of themselves. So now we can have both, in a single, bargain-priced and handsomely packaged edition. As with most DVDs, the bonus deleted scenes are pretty much a waste of time, although they do help a person understand the choices Coppola made in editing, and in that sense, it really drives home the magnitude of his achievement in creating the original masterpiece. I don't like that the movie is broken into two parts; why couldn't they have put the original on one disc, and Redux on the other? But then again, in a long movie most people have to take a bathroom break at some point anyway, and the sampan massacre is an appropriately dramatic scene with which to end part one. All told, The Apocalypse Now Complete Dossier 2-disc special edition is well worth buying. Was this review helpful to you? (Report this)   4 of 4 people found the following review helpful: One Of The Greatest Films Ever, May 20 2004 By  Keith A. Berry (Laurel, Maryland United States) - See all my reviews This review is from: Apocalypse Now (DVD) It's hard to catagorize APOCALYPSE NOW. It's about war, but isn't a war film.....it's more about the darkness of the human soul and man's inability to overcome the terrors of the world without going insane. This isn't a hyper-realistic vision of the Vietnam War, but in its drugged, insane, dryly humorous worldview of a conflict with little meaning and its impact on the souls and minds of a boat crew escorting a military assassin to dispatch a Army Colonel who has gone psychopathic and has formed his own army of Asian primitives to wreak mindless bloodshed, the film transcends the war setting and becomes a journey into the absurd. It may not be how the Vietnam War actually WAS, but certainly may be how it felt to some who were involved. Some of the most powerful images in cinema are displayed in this film. Witness the drugged, drunken, and disturbing opening scene of Willard, the army assassin, having a nervous breakdown in his hotel room.......or the helicopter attack on a Viet Cong village, which is stunning in its scope and ferocity.....or the final haunting shot of the film, with the words "the horror....the horror" whispered as a final denounement. A must-have for any film collection. The only drawback: for the DVD version of this film, director of photography Vittoro Storaro has chosen to crop the original 2:35 Panavision framing down to about 2:1, cutting a fair amount of picture off the sides of the frame. Thankfully, this isn't noticeable most of the time, but a handful of shots in the movie are ruined by the loss of picture information. And avoid the longer, reconstructed REDUX version until you've seen this original masterpiece. REDUX has some interesting new scenes, but they add nothing to the narrative and have a negative effect on the pacing of the film.....the original APOCALYPSE is a masterpiece, and REDUX is just a interesting alternate version that is frequently boring and doesn't have the same impact as the original. Was this review helpful to you?