Were it not for the prominence in popular culture of some of the film’s more famous lines — “I love the smell of napalm in the morning,” “terminate with extreme prejudice” or “Charlie don’t surf!” — this wouldn’t have seemed a classic movie. The cinematography entrances in it’s awful beauty. The scenes with Kurtz were riveting. The trip upriver conveys the absurdly meaningless sacrifices of the Vietnam War, but otherwise seemed disconnected to the Heart of Darkness-inspired third act centered on…
