Strong and Moving!

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

No, it's not as good as the other two by any stretch, and some scenes are downright strange. It suffers seriously from a lack of DUvall/Hagen. Why it's about accounting in the Vatican I really don't know. But the relationships between the core characters and young lovers feel like a natural evolution from where we left them, and that quotable line, "JUST WHEN I THINK IM OUT, THEY PULL ME BACK IN" is from this one, and don't you forget it. Coppola wanted to call this "the death of michael corleone" and sell it as an EPILOGUE to the first two masterpieces. Viewed with that understanding, its faults are much more forgivable and its pace appropriate. And listen, I am just not here for Sofia-bashing. She was young and inexperienced. She gave a somewhat stiff but in many scenes quite lovely performance. She talks and acts like a real rich teenager, not like a trained actress. And she never did anything to hurt you, so don't be mean.

The Godfather III serves as the final chapter in the series, showing the viewers the beginning of the next generation of the Corleone family dynasty. The themes of the series are continued in this film, namely the duality of doing the wrong things for the right reasons. The values of loyalty and family are contrasted with crime and evil acts.In the final film of the series, Michael Corleone has grown older and the actions of his past begin to haunt him with guilt. Along with losing his family in the previous films, Michael's unhappiness drives him to atone for his sins. Despite his charitable actions, his nephew, Vincent, begins to follow in his uncle's footsteps. This is a different form of the vigilante philosophy that usually drives the protagonists of the series, as the head of the family desires to "go clean", while others participate in the older, more violent, methods.Like the previous installments in the series, the film does have a long running time. Unfortunately, unlike the other films in the series, Godfather III doesn't stand on its own. The third film serves as a bookend to the other films, or as Coppola said himself, an epilogue to the story. Part III may not hold up as well as the first two films, but that only speaks to how good The Godfather I and II are. The Godfather III is still a great movie and worth watching.

It's maybe one of the most underappreciated movie ever. I still don't get all these complaints about Sofia Coppola's acting, I mean... in my opinion she fits the role with her Italian beauty. As always people follow the critics blindly without thinking about it on their own. Personally, my favourite of the three partly because of Andy Garcia who completely stole the scene. The greatness of this movie is simply undeniable that even the music is so moving.

Old Francis Ford must have really been off his meds when he made this film. He's lucky they didn't take away his director's chair for good. First of all the three leading women were absolutely an embarrassment to the art of film and I blame terrible acting on the director. It's his project and he can either get what he wants on film or get new actors. I think that just about any three other actresses would have done a better job than his daughter, his cousin, and Diane Keaton. Talia Shire gives an absolutely cringe-worthy performance at every step and Sofia Coppola is just no one's idea of an actress. What was he thinking? Eli Wallach was also completely horrible. Joe Mantegna plays a silly caricature of a gangster which works well in parody form on The Simpsons but is ridiculous in this movie. Even Al Pacino phones this one in.Andy Garcia carries about 90% of this movie and without him it would have been completely awful."He dips his bullets in cyanide," it is said of one of the gangsters which is just stupid because bullets are pretty much lethal all on their own.The story is a convoluted mess that tries to wow us with its intricacies but all of the Vatican shenanigans just come across as desperation because they didn't have much of a story to sell.The only saving grace of the movie are the few well-done action sequences and a couple of other scenes that add tension. The meeting between Al, Andy, and Joe in the office, the hit scene in the apartment, the execution of Joey Zaza, to name a few. The helicopter shootout of the casino was way, way over-the-top and stupid.Most of the movie is the film equivalent of fly-over country, or fast-forward country.