One of a cluster of late-1970s films about the Vietnam War, Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now adapts the Joseph Conrad novella Heart of Darkness to depict the war as a descent into primal madness. Capt. Willard (Martin Sheen), already on the edge, is assigned to find and deal with AWOL Col. Kurtz (Marlon Brando), rumored to have set himself up in the Cambodian jungle as a local, lethal godhead. Along the way Willard encounters napalm and Wagner fan Col. Kilgore (Robert Duvall), draftees who prefer to surf and do drugs, a USO Playboy Bunny show turned into a riot by the raucous soldiers, and a jumpy photographer (Dennis Hopper) telling wild, reverent tales about Kurtz. By the time Willard sees the heads mounted on stakes near Kurtz's compound, he knows Kurtz has gone over the deep end, but it is uncertain whether Willard himself now agrees with Kurtz's insane dictum to "Drop the Bomb. Exterminate them all." Despite the studio's fears and mixed reviews of the film's ending, Apocalypse Now became a substantial hit and was nominated for eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor and Best Screenplay. It won Oscars for sound and for Vittorio Storaro's cinematography. This hallucinatory, Wagnerian project has produced admirers and detractors of equal ardor; it resembles no other film ever made, and its nightmarish aura and polarized reception aptly reflect the tensions and confusions of the Vietnam era.

STARS.........: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall DIRECTOR......: Francis Ford Coppola WRITERS.......: John Milius, Francis Ford Coppola GENRE.........: War, Drama METASCORE.....: 94 TOMATOMETER...: 96 IMDB RATING...: 8.5/10 527,340 votes IMDB LINK.....: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099674 RUNTIME.......: 2h 27mn SIZE..........: 6.17 GB VIDEO CODEC...: HEVC (Main@L4) BITRATE.......: 5000 Kbps (2-pass) RESOLUTION....: 1920x820 ASPECT RATIO..: 2.35:1 FRAMERATE.....: 23.976 fps AUDIO1........: English E-AC3 5.1 640kbps AUDIO2........: English AAC 2.0 265kbps AUDIO3........: Commentary by Francis Ford Coppola SUBTITLES.....: ENG CHAPTERS......: Yes SOURCE........: German Full Disclosure Blu-ray ENCODED BY....: Sartre ENCODE DATE...: 2018-11-03

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