My opinion on this was pretty weak from the beginning, with a lot of pretty poor performances coming from anyone that wasn't Klaus Kinski. For the first half of the film, my opinion remained mostly the same, and it was overall an "ok" jungle survival drama. In the second half of the film, it begins to shine, in particular in the last 20 minutes or so as the remains of the crew begin to lose their senses and finally give in to the madness and hopelessness of their journey. It also helped for the performances too, as most of the bad actors were weeded out by the story early on, as the crew slowly dwindles to a few desperate survivors.
Is it one of the great films of all time, like it's made out to be? I mean, I wouldn't go nearly that far. It inspired Apocalypse Now (which was a much better film in my opinion) and overall I thought it was solid and its strengths overpowered its weaknesses.
8/10
I would highly recommend looking up the behind-the-scenes of this one though; they're as wild as the plot itself.
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