Fans of the first two instalments are likely to find The Godfather Part III an unworthy heir to the tradition. First-time voters, meanwhile, will surely wonder what on earth all the fuss was all about.
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09/15/04
The Godfather Part III (1990)
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Reviews Counted:53
Fresh:35
Rotten:18
Average Rating:6.4/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 50 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: In the third film of Francis Ford Coppola's Corleone family saga, 20 years have passed and Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) is in failing health and haunted by remorse over his brother Fredo's murder.... [More]
Starring: Al Pacino, Andy Garcia, Joe Mantegna, Eli Wallach
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Reviews for The Godfather Part III
Top CriticThe acting is merely passable, several characters are given nothing to do, and Michael's paranoid self-pity lends the film an absurd morality: Coppola expects us to sympathise with the semblance of virtue.
06/24/06
Top CriticAnyone with memories of The Godfather and its 1974 sequel will shudder at how Coppola reduces their powerful iconography to the level of a daytime soap.
04/17/01
Top CriticVery few have stepped up to bat to defend The Godfather Part III (1990), which I consider a masterpiece and the equal of Parts I and II.
10/20/06
No review available.
03/16/07
No review available.
12/09/07
No review available.
11/19/04
It is, I suspect, not even possible to understand this film without knowing the first two, and yet, knowing them, Part III works better than it should, evokes the same sense of wasted greatness, of misdirected genius.
01/01/00
Top CriticAn epic without epic scope, a muted, strained, unnatural affair that never comes into dramatic focus.
12/12/07
Not a bad conclusion to the series. No where near as good as the first two films.
05/30/03
Not up to par with the first two, but still interesting because of Pacino.
08/15/02
No review available.
10/18/02
No review available.
08/22/03
No review available.
11/12/03
Though certainly one of 1990's better films, it is seriously flawed and doesn't hold a candle to the two earlier Godfather movies, considered in most critical corners to be among the best, if not the best, films of the 1970s.
01/01/00
Ultimately, the film is fine for ending the trilogy, but Part III is more of an appendix than an epilogue.
10/09/01
No review available.
03/20/03
A huge letdown that sorely misses Robert Duvall.
10/21/05
No review available.
07/11/03
I think if you can take a step back from the first two movies and if you can ignore the younger Ms. Coppola, this is still a more artful and ambitious movie than the industry standard.
09/28/05
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