Godfather: Part III, The (1990)

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I recently re-watched the first two Godfather films in preparation for The Offer, the new TV series about the first film's production. Since I'd never seen the third one I watched the slightly re-edited 2020 re-release (re-titled "The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone"). Honestly I don't understand the hate. Here's a hot take for you, but Sofia Coppola gives the second-best performance in it after Talia Shire. The main problem is that she's a character in a Sofia Coppola movie, who should be spending her time staring out windows to an Air song, while everyone else is in a bombastic, melodramatic opera -- but the contrast makes the rest of them look like fools, not her.

This is a weird, unsuccessful film, perhaps thematically in keeping with the originals but hurting them by association. See also: The Phantom Menace.

- Sam - 2022-09-08 04:51:34