(70) Gardens of Stone

Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
Rated R
1987
112 minutes

**

I seriously don't know what happened to Francis Ford Coppola between Apocalypse Now and this film, but if I hadn't known he had directed this, I would never have guessed it. A war film about soldiers NOT on active duty during a war could've been really interesting in the hands of another director, but Coppola just bumbles it completely. Add to that extremely wooden performances from Anjelica Huston and D.B. Sweeney and some of the worst, out-of-place music I've ever heard and you have yet another film whose only watchable component is James Earl Jones.