Review of Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991) by Andrejs P — 07 Dec 2009

EXCELLENT documentary about the making of A. The best Vietnam War movie of all time and B. A movie that was cursed with massive scripting, casting, filming, and resource problems, that almost irreparably destroyed the minds and bodies of all involved.

It was always bound to be a fascinating watch, but one will never know how much these artists suffered to bring us this masterpiece until one.

Watches this AMAZINGLY AWESOME documentary.

From huge delays due to the fact that when the script was written, in 1969, the Vietnam War was in full swing, budgetary constraints, fear on the part of big studios of upsetting the American government with a film which so blatantly criticised its biggest and most expensive mistake, and spoilt and tempremental, morbidly obese, and uncooperative (not mentioning any names ;) leading men; stress-/substance-induced heart attacks; atrocious ingestion of drugs and alcohol as well as unscripted assault and self-mutiliation while on camera; massively unhealthy weight loss; political upheaval and supporting of fascist regimes, this movie had it all, and this documentary tells it all - BRILLIANT!!!