Apocalypse Now (1979)

Apocalypse Now rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb8.4/10· 769K votes

Rotten Tomatoes91%

Metacritic94%

TMDb8.267/10· 9K votes

With 91% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 8.4/10 on IMDb and 94/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.

About Apocalypse Now

At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.

Cast of Apocalypse Now

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  Martin Sheen

  as Captain Benjamin Willard

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  Marlon Brando

  as Colonel Walter Kurtz

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  Frederic Forrest

  as Jay 'Chef' Hicks

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  Albert Hall

  as Chief Phillips

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  Laurence Fishburne

  as Tyrone 'Clean' Miller

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  Sam Bottoms

  as Lance B. Johnson

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  Robert Duvall

  as Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore

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  G.D. Spradlin

  as General Corman

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  Harrison Ford

  as Colonel

• J

  Jerry Ziesmer

  as Jerry, Civilian

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  Scott Glenn

  as Lieutenant Richard M. Colby

• K

  Kerry Rossall

  as Mike from San Diego

Apocalypse Now facts

Budget

$31.5M

Box office

$150M

Our take on Apocalypse Now

Coppola's 1979 Vietnam epic sends Captain Willard upriver to assassinate the renegade Colonel Kurtz, in a fever-dream descent into the madness of war. Hallucinatory, monumental and unforgettable, it's less a battle film than a journey into the heart of darkness. If its surreal dread and operatic scale gripped you, seek out ambitious war films and hypnotic descents that treat conflict as a moral and psychological abyss.