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Apocalypse Now Redux
Miramax Films
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for disturbing violent images, language, sexual content and some drug use
Starring
Marlon Brando,
Robert Duvall,
Martin Sheen,
Dennis Hopper,
and
Laurence Fishburne
A new, expanded version of Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 Vietnam war epic.
| GENRE(S): |
War
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
John Milius
Francis Ford Coppola
Joseph Conrad (novel Heart of Darkness)
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Francis Ford Coppola
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: November 20, 2001
Video: November 20, 2001
Theatrical: August 3, 2001
|
| RUNNING TIME: |
196 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
Philadelphia Inquirer
Desmond Ryan
It's an occasion for welcoming a restoration that transforms a flawed movie, one that was touched by greatness, into a masterpiece.

100
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Magnificent to look at, thrilling, ingenious, spellbinding and superbly done on every level, this is not just one of the best films of the year or the decade, but of all time.

100
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Such gorgeous explosions, such a terrible vision, such an amazing work of art. Go. Now.

100
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
One of the great films of all time. It shames modern Hollywood's timidity. To watch it is to feel yourself lifted up to the heights where the cinema can take you, but so rarely does.

100
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
As powerful as the movie remains and as much as I enjoyed this new cut, I have to say that the additional footage -- material that Coppola felt he had to excise 20 years ago to reach a commercial length -- has turned out to be something of a mixed blessing.

100
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
A spruced-up version has been re-released after 22 years, and the addition of 43 minutes means the story really has room to breathe.

100
Mr. Showbiz
Michael Atkinson
No other movie released this year is as much of a filmgoing necessity as Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now Redux.
100
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
The breathtaking visual and aural restoration by Coppola and Murch makes the film's original glories even more intense than you remember them.

100
Portland Oregonian
Kim Morgan
No matter how many times you've seen it, you marvel at how terrifying, gorgeous and surreal the jungle, the yellow napalm and, finally, the disturbed face of Martin Sheen lying under a swirling fan appear on the large screen. This is indeed, a dream.

100
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Episodic and uneven, but it has moments of great emotional power.

100
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
This is the untamed Apocalypse that Coppola envisioned in 1979 before money and mental pressures made him fear he had created something too long, too weird and too morally demanding for the masses.

100
USA Today
Mike Clark
The film now seems both mellowed and --thanks in part to the most vibrant-looking prints in its 22-year history -- revitalized.

100
New Times (L.A.)
Gregory Weinkauf
Coppola and Murch have balanced their new edit with grace notes of sweetness, elegance and eroticism, and the payoff is grand, providing both a reprieve from the multiple blitzkriegs and a break in the monotony of the cruise up the Nung.

100
LA Weekly
Manohla Dargis
To look at Apocalypse Now is to realize that most of us are fast forgetting what a movie looks like -- a real movie, the last movie, an American masterpiece.

100
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
The best film of 2001 was made in 1979.

91
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Remains a majestic explosion of pure cinema. It's a hallucinatory poem of fear, projecting, in its scale and spirit, a messianic vision of human warfare stretched to the flashpoint of technological and moral breakdown.

90
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Whatever thematic clarity the added footage may confer is prosaic or didactic and intrusive; this stuff hit the cutting-room floor the first time around for good reason.
90
Time
Richard Corliss
Redux is both a reminder of American cinema's last glory days and a rebuke to the timid present. Maybe Apocalypse Now wasn't the best movie of 1979, but Redux is surely the film to beat for 2001.
90
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Better in certain ways than the original "Apocalypse Now," though the flaws are also magnified.

90
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
In spite of its limited perspective on Vietnam, its churning, term-paperish exploration of Conrad and the near incoherence of its ending, (it) is a great movie. It grows richer and stranger with each viewing, and the restoration of scenes left in the cutting room two decades ago has only added to its sublimity.

90
Variety
Todd McCarthy
A weightier, more nuanced and fulsome experience than the film the world has known up to now.

88
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
The clear powerhouse in the new film is a scene where Kurtz, speaking with the twisted coherence of the true paranoid-schizophrenic, uses Time magazine articles and other references to justify his actions.

88
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
The movie's jabbing originality is what sticks in your memory.

80
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
The more you see of Apocalypse, the more obvious its triumphs AND mistakes.

80
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
Nothing can redeem the movie's final 40 minutes. That may not be an ultimate horror, but it is a real one.

80
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
It's a mixed blessing, in some ways even richer and more atmospheric than the original version, in others attenuated and logy.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Edward Guthmann
The new material makes the film seem lumpy and overstuffed.

60
Salon.com
Allen Barra
Though it may be a much clearer picture of the director's original intent, ultimately the new "Apocalypse Now" merely brings into focus the limits and faults of Coppola's -- and Milius' -- original concept.

30
Slate
David Edelstein
Excruciatingly bad...Probably if Redux hadn't been acclaimed as a newly minted masterpiece, I wouldn't have felt so compelled to blow raspberries.


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