apocolypse now is in no way a 'bad' movie. however. you can tell the movie was meant to be realistic in some ways. where it failed at parts. this is probably because the movie was being writting AS it was being filmed. anyways, the part where the movie really lost itself is toward the end. where it turned into something of a horror movie and lost the feel of war completely. im aware that this was to show how horrific and apocolyptic the soldiers felt in the vietnam war. but as shown in platoon, you dont have to sacrafice realism in order to capture great and powerful visuals.