"Coppola"

1979 · Francis Ford Coppola · 147 min · War / Drama

Apocalypse Now remains one of the most visually and sonically overwhelming war films ever made, a journey that trades conventional combat storytelling for something closer to a fever dream. The first two acts are as good as anything in the genre, built on images and sounds that refuse to leave your memory. Where it stumbles, in a final stretch that loses the narrative momentum it spent two hours building, the stumble is fascinating rather than fatal. Francis Ford Coppola made a film that captures the madness of war by going a little mad itself, and the result is something that still feels unlike anything else.