So this movie takes place during the Vietnam War. The movie starts with us looking at a jungle with a bunch of trees. We see a chopper fly across it and seconds later the trees burst in to flames from an explosion. We then shift to our main character Captain Willard and he is in his room drunk and in kind in a trance. He starts going around the room and starts to do weird karate moves and stuff. While in his trance he ends up punching a mirror and ends up cutting his 
hand. Anyways Captain Willard is called in by a general and is given orders to find and kill a man named Colonel Kurtz. After looking over the files that he is given Willard learns that Colonel Kurtz was a very decorated officer and had received many awards. He was also about to be promoted. Captain Willard is told by the General that Kurtz has gone crazy and they have lost contact with him. Kurtz is believed to be in the jungle somewhere. Captain Willard takes a patrol boat with an rather interesting crew in search of Kurtz. While on the boat Willard take more time to study Kurtz's file and learns that Kurtz has become the leader of a bunch of followers some of whom are his fellow soldiers.
So the ending is kind of an interesting scene. Willard slowly appears out of the water and he is wearing camouflage paint and it is lightning and thundering. At this time the tribe is preparing a water buffalo to be sacrificed. We see Kurtz standing in the doorway of the temple and then go inside. Willard ambushes one of the guards that is outside the temple and then goes inside. Kurtz is recording some stuff and is then ambushed by Willard who had a knife with him. When Willard attacks Kurtz with the knife at the same time the tribe outside starts chopping at the water buffalo sacrificing it(I sense some irony here). We then switch between these to events for a little while. It all ends with Kurtz who is on the floor bloody and dieing.
hand. Anyways Captain Willard is called in by a general and is given orders to find and kill a man named Colonel Kurtz. After looking over the files that he is given Willard learns that Colonel Kurtz was a very decorated officer and had received many awards. He was also about to be promoted. Captain Willard is told by the General that Kurtz has gone crazy and they have lost contact with him. Kurtz is believed to be in the jungle somewhere. Captain Willard takes a patrol boat with an rather interesting crew in search of Kurtz. While on the boat Willard take more time to study Kurtz's file and learns that Kurtz has become the leader of a bunch of followers some of whom are his fellow soldiers.
So the ending is kind of an interesting scene. Willard slowly appears out of the water and he is wearing camouflage paint and it is lightning and thundering. At this time the tribe is preparing a water buffalo to be sacrificed. We see Kurtz standing in the doorway of the temple and then go inside. Willard ambushes one of the guards that is outside the temple and then goes inside. Kurtz is recording some stuff and is then ambushed by Willard who had a knife with him. When Willard attacks Kurtz with the knife at the same time the tribe outside starts chopping at the water buffalo sacrificing it(I sense some irony here). We then switch between these to events for a little while. It all ends with Kurtz who is on the floor bloody and dieing.
Apocalypse now I found to be a great movie. Coppola does a very good job of taking all aspects of it and rolling it into one very interesting and cool film. There was at no one time during this film that I was ever really bored the action of it kept me on the edge throughout.
