At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.
Keywords:
Guerrilla warfare
Epic
Vietnam war
Journalist
Mission
Vietnam
Vietcong
Central intelligence agency (cia)
Cambodia
Army
Drug abuse
Based on novel or book
Secret mission
Insanity
Surrealism
Tribe
Green beret
Jungle
Descent into madness
Brutality
Riverboat
Military
Anti war
Movie tag line: "This is the end..."
Character: Captain Benjamin Willard
Character: Jay 'Chef' Hicks
Character: Chief Phillips
Character: Tyrone 'Clean' Miller
Character: Lance B. Johnson