歐美電影簡介：《現代啟示錄》

《現代啟示錄》是一部以越戰(zhàn)為背景的影片，由弗朗西斯·福特·科波拉導演，馬丁·辛、馬龍·白蘭度、羅伯特·杜瓦主演。影片于1979年8月15日美國上映。影片講述了越戰(zhàn)期間，美軍情報官員威爾德上尉奉命除掉庫爾茲上校。接到命令后，威爾德率領小分隊，冒險乘小艇深入柬埔寨。

Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film set during the Vietnam War. It was directed and produced by Francis Ford Coppola and stars Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, and Martin Sheen. The central character is US Army special operations officer Captain Benjamin L. Willard (played by Sheen), an assassin sent to kill the renegade and presumed insane Special Forces Colonel Walter E. Kurtz (Brando's role). The screenplay by John Milius and Coppola came from Milius's idea of adapting Joseph Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness into the Vietnam War era. It also draws from Michael Herr's Dispatches, the film version of Conrad's Lord Jim and Werner Herzog's Aguirre, theWrath of God (1972).

On the review website Rotten Tomatoes.com, Apocalypse Now has an incredibly high 99% rating. The consensus is: "Francis Ford Coppola's haunting, hallucinatory Vietnam war epic is cinema at its most audacious and visionary". In his original review, Roger Ebert wrote: "Apocalypse Now achieves greatness not by analyzing our experience in Vietnam, but by re-creating, in characters and images, something of that experience." The Los Angeles Times' Charles Champlin wrote: "It towers over everything that has been attempted by an American filmmaker in a very long time". The movie is widely regarded by many as a masterpiece of Hollywood, and is frequently cited as one of the greatest films of all time.