Apocalypse Now Movie Review

Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now takes us on Captain Benjamin Willard’s journey into Cambodia where he is sent to “terminate with extreme prejudice” the once brilliant Colonel Kurtz. It is apparent that Kurtz has gone insane, waging a personal war with the Vietnamese using native troops who also happen to worship him as a god. As Willard travels up the Nang River he takes a journey into the darkest corners of his own mind, finding himself increasingly becoming the man that he has been sent out to destroy.
Apocalypse Now is loosely based on Joseph Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness, originally set in Congo during the days of Europ...