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Title: Well, it is bigger...
Review: ...APOCALYPSE NOW was a long rambling film, that should have been edited to a much shorter length. Coppola was simply too ambitious and let the film get away from him. Now, the REDUX attempts to improve the original by adding instead of subtracting. While REDUX does explain some things, such as why the Playboy Bunnies were in the movie, the movie would have been much better, certainly easier to digest, if it had been less ambitious in it's scope and more concise in it's message.It's still a great movie though. Most males who see it for the first time, become obessed with it and watch it over and over until they walk around quoting lines from it, and you begin to worry about their sanity. (Some Vietnam War vets tend to see it as campy though, despite the horror it contains.) But it's worth the price just having a DVD for no other reason than to watch the helicopter attack scene, which is one of the best action sequences ever.
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