i first saw apocalypse now in 1985 when it was broadcast on british television for the first time . i was shell shocked after seeing this masterpiece and despite some close competition from the likes of fellowship of the ring this movie still remains my all time favourite nearly 20 years after i first saw it this leads to the problem of how i can even begin to comment on the movie . i could praise the technical aspects especially the sound  and editing and cinematography but everyone else seems to have praised ( rightly too ) these achievements to high heaven while the performances in general and robert duvall in particular have also been noted  and and everyone else has mentioned the stark imagery of the dou long bridge and the montage of the boat traveling upriver after passing through the border how about the script . francis ford coppola is best known as a director but he everyway a genius as a screenwriter as he was as a director  and i said was in the past tense because making this movie seems to have burned out every creative brain cell in his head  and but his sacrifice was worth it . in john milius original solo draft we have a script that just as insane and disturbing as the one on screen  and but coppola involvement in the screenplay has injected a narrative that exactly mirrors that of war . check how the screenplay starts off all jingoistic and macho with a star turn by bill kilgore who do not have looked out of place in the green berets but the more the story progresses the more shocking and insane everything becomes  and so much so that by the time reaches kurtz outpost the audience are watching another film in much the same way as the characters have sailed into another dimension . when coppola states this movie isn not about vietnam  it is vietnam he right . what started off as a patriotic war to defeat communist aggression in the mid 1960s had by the film setting ( the manson trial suggests it 1970 ) had changed america view of both the world and itself and of the world view of america it the insane beauty of apocalypse now that makes it a masterwork of cinema and says more in its running time about the brutality of conflict and the hypocrisy of politicians ( what did you do in the vietnam war mr president . ) than michael moore could hope to say in a lifetime . i have not seen the redux version but watching the original print i do not feel there was anything missing from the story which like all truly great films is very basic . in fact the premise can lend itself to many other genres like a western where an army officer has to track down and kill a renegade colonel who leading an injun war party  and or a sci fi movie where a un assassin is to eliminate a fellow un soldier who leading a resistance movement on mars  and though this is probably down to joseph conrad original source novelmy all time favourite movie and it very fitting that i chose this movie to be my one thousandth review at the imdb. 
i first saw apocalypse now in 1985 when it was broadcast on british television for the first time . i was shell shocked after seeing this masterpiece and despite some close competition from the likes of fellowship of the ring this movie still remains my all time favourite nearly 20 years after i first saw it this leads to the problem of how i can even begin to comment on the movie . i could praise the technical aspects especially the sound  and editing and cinematography but everyone else seems to have praised ( rightly too ) these achievements to high heaven while the performances in general and robert duvall in particular have also been noted  and and everyone else has mentioned the stark imagery of the dou long bridge and the montage of the boat traveling upriver after passing through the border how about the script . francis ford coppola is best known as a director but he everyway a genius as a screenwriter as he was as a director  and i said was in the past tense because making this movie seems to have burned out every creative brain cell in his head  and but his sacrifice was worth it . in john milius original solo draft we have a script that just as insane and disturbing as the one on screen  and but coppola involvement in the screenplay has injected a narrative that exactly mirrors that of war . check how the screenplay starts off all jingoistic and macho with a star turn by bill kilgore who do not have looked out of place in the green berets but the more the story progresses the more shocking and insane everything becomes  and so much so that by the time reaches kurtz outpost the audience are watching another film in much the same way as the characters have sailed into another dimension . when coppola states this movie isn not about vietnam  it is vietnam he right . what started off as a patriotic war to defeat communist aggression in the mid 1960s had by the film setting ( the manson trial suggests it 1970 ) had changed america view of both the world and itself and of the world view of america it the insane beauty of apocalypse now that makes it a masterwork of cinema and says more in its running time about the brutality of conflict and the hypocrisy of politicians ( what did you do in the vietnam war mr president . ) than michael moore could hope to say in a lifetime . i have not seen the redux version but watching the original print i do not feel there was anything missing from the story which like all truly great films is very basic . in fact the premise can lend itself to many other genres like a western where an army officer has to track down and kill a renegade colonel who leading an injun war party  and or a sci fi movie where a un assassin is to eliminate a fellow un soldier who leading a resistance movement on mars  and though this is probably down to joseph conrad original source novelmy all time favourite movie and it very fitting that i chose this movie to be my one thousandth review at the imdb. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

Judge the movie review above, you need to make a function call:
    If you feel the movie review is positive
        print "This is a semantically positive review."
    Otherwise, if you feel the movie review is negative
        print "This is a semantically negative review."
