It is unbelievable how low the bar is for some people to consider this a worthy sequel to Part 1 and 2. A 16 year later sequel to two of the most well appreciated and iconic films of the century would never meet anyone's expectations, but this bullcrap doesn't even deserve an average score. It absolutely IS NOT even good on its own terms. People who appreciate film know the difference between good and bad writing, if you don't, go ahead and give this an 8/10. The fact that they decided to graft this pretentiously named script onto the end of a complete novel shows you what its all about. Puzo may have been a great author, but this film script he and Coppla came up with here is bad, period.
Godfather Part 1 and 2 stood on very soild ground having been based on a novel, and so they ended up being director's movies, some of the best ones ever according to imdb. Watching this back to back with the two REAL godfather films made the difference in quality even more noticable. In those ones, the writing and acting was so good that it felt like you were watching a real life conversation. In part 3, people, literally just say how they're feeling and scenes never long enough to ever be immersive. Its shot like a Disney Channel movie, nowhere near the detail and consideration put into each shot in the original.
Anybody saying that this is as good as the first two films literally just has to be trolling. But even the mind-numbing line of "Its not up to the level of the originals but its still a good sequel" is still just not true. This movie has none of the attention to detail, quality of writing, nor the well polished script, and certainly not the incredible acting performances of those movies. Its an average film thats made below average by lame fan service and completely over the top scenes that insult the low strung tone of the real films.
I have news for you, anyone who gives this a score better than 6: Puzo and Coppala know that this script is bad. They know what they made is extremely mediocre exactly because they are both good at what they do. Only a bad director could think this is a good film script, and Coppala is a GREAT film director, therefore he knows. What they made here is just lazy, plain and simple. And it was produced because it was certain to be profitable, plain and simple.
I don't know how you go from the diner assassination scene in Part 1 to the scene in this where somebody calls in a Black Ops chopper gunner, and a guy yells "no its my lucky coat!", and then gets shot to death. WATCH THAT SCENE AGAIN AND GIVE THIS MOVIE A 9/10, do it. Nothing else to say.
Godfather Part 1 and 2 stood on very soild ground having been based on a novel, and so they ended up being director's movies, some of the best ones ever according to imdb. Watching this back to back with the two REAL godfather films made the difference in quality even more noticable. In those ones, the writing and acting was so good that it felt like you were watching a real life conversation. In part 3, people, literally just say how they're feeling and scenes never long enough to ever be immersive. Its shot like a Disney Channel movie, nowhere near the detail and consideration put into each shot in the original.
Anybody saying that this is as good as the first two films literally just has to be trolling. But even the mind-numbing line of "Its not up to the level of the originals but its still a good sequel" is still just not true. This movie has none of the attention to detail, quality of writing, nor the well polished script, and certainly not the incredible acting performances of those movies. Its an average film thats made below average by lame fan service and completely over the top scenes that insult the low strung tone of the real films.
I have news for you, anyone who gives this a score better than 6: Puzo and Coppala know that this script is bad. They know what they made is extremely mediocre exactly because they are both good at what they do. Only a bad director could think this is a good film script, and Coppala is a GREAT film director, therefore he knows. What they made here is just lazy, plain and simple. And it was produced because it was certain to be profitable, plain and simple.
I don't know how you go from the diner assassination scene in Part 1 to the scene in this where somebody calls in a Black Ops chopper gunner, and a guy yells "no its my lucky coat!", and then gets shot to death. WATCH THAT SCENE AGAIN AND GIVE THIS MOVIE A 9/10, do it. Nothing else to say.