An "all-new version" of Francis Ford Coppola's Vietnam epic Apocalypse Now is 49 minutes longer and includes never-before-seen footage.

The new edition is a staggering 202 minutes long.

"Yet despite the extra demands place on the viewer's patience (not to mention posterior!), there is no denying Redux is a richer, bolder and more insightful work," wrote the BBC's Neil Smith.

But what do you think? Does it change the film dramatically? Or is just too long without adding anything really significant?

I wish people would admit once and for all that this is a pretentious sprawling movie with little but cinematography going for it. Redux has nothing to enhance the movie. Maybe these directors should be developing new quality material instead of ripping us off by "improving" old stuff.
Jack, UK

A great film made even better. I also hope that the additional scenes - especially those which take place at the French plantation - will draw belated attention to writer John Milius, an exceptional Hollywood talent who originally came up with the idea of transposing Heart of Darkness to the nightmarish landscape of Vietnam.
Robert del Valle, USA

An over-rated and bloated example of "artistic" excess is now even more indigestible. Is this the Brando syndrome?
Gifford Maxim, Chicago, USA

In the cinema, with an intermission, the new length isn't a problem. Better to buy it on DVD though, so one can view it at their leisure. I liked the new version, it smoothed out the storyline a bit better than the chaotic original.
Stephen, USA

What a corker! Redux considerably enhances Apocalypse Now's examination of war in a broader sense and not just specifically the Vietnam conflict. All the newly added footage is relevant and strangely enough even adds a dryly comedic edge missing in the original.

The only minor criticism I would make was the very dated and cheesy soundtrack during the eagerly awaited French plantation sequence (cringe).

Anyone who likes Apocalypse Now will love this superb extended version, especially as for many there'll be the extra treat of viewing the film on the big screen for the first time.
Matt Nisbet, Hong Kong

I watched with no intermission and only during the French plantation sequence did I get fidgety. Martin Sheen has even admitted that he had forgotten that it had even been filmed, and no wonder. Dull and jingoistic, if such a thing is possible.
Megan, Canada

The additional footage simply add about 50 minutes to the film. It doesn't change the film too much. I am glad they reinserted the entire scene from the besieged French rubber plantation.
Derry Donny, Canada

I am eagerly awaiting the release of the film, released 23rd Nov, my only complaint - and this is a big one! - is that not one cinema in my region is showing it or going to show it! The closest viewing to me is Cambridge, and I'm near Bristol! I think Harry Potter has cast his evil spell on me!
Wayne Farrell, UK

Reading some of the above comments makes me wonder if any of them were watching the same Apocalypse Now Redux as I was. Without doubt one of the greatest films of all time, streets ahead of the bilge Hollywood churns out nowadays. I left the cinema with those helicopters in the opening sequence burned on my brain and "The End" ringing through my ears. Ignore those above who criticise it - they are fools who knoweth not a good movie. See this film immediately.
Sarah , England

I don't think the new footage makes the film any better. In fact, it hinders it. What made the original so interesting was the conflict between the director, actors and the narrative. The original was, at times, disjointed and contradictory and was a better version because of it. It's lack of definitive closure along with the abundance of unanswered questions left it a truly open piece of classic cinema.
Paul Thompson, UK

An extraordinary film, an extraordinary country, an extraordinary war. Go and see the film, go and see the country, go and meet the people. You won�t be disappointed!
Stuart Selwyn, UK

Laughable. I'll have to agree with Sarah from England. Some of you must have seen the wrong flick.

For those who insist they did not, please go and rent a copy of Hearts of Darkness, a behind the scenes documentary shot by Coppola's wife throughout the course of the 500 plus days of filming. Any film who's lead actor suffers a heart attack and nervous breakdown while shooting, loses its rented helicopters as they are called off to war, and presents a live, ritualistic sacrifice of a water buffalo deserves a nod from me.

This is not Hollywood. In fact, the film is just as real as the conflict it portrays. Watch it again with new eyes.
Brett, Colorado, USA