Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rated by buyers R (Restricted)
Type of bind: DVD
Brand: Paramount
EAN num: 9780792173335
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN number: 0792173333
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Quantity: 1
Publishing house: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 24, 2005
Running Time: 162 minutes
Sale Popularity Level: 15884
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: December 25, 1990
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In this third film in the epic Corleone trilogy, Al Pacino reprises the role of powerful family leader Michael Corleone. Now in his 60's, Michael is dominated by two passions: freeing his family from crime and finding a suitable successor. That successor could be fiery Vincent (Andy Garcia)... but he may also be the spark that turns Michael's hope of business legitimacy into an inferno of mob violence.
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Sixteen years after Francis Ford Coppola won his second Oscar for The Godfather II (his very first was for the 1972 Godfather), the director and star Al Pacino attempted to revive the concept one more time. Despite an elaborate plot that involves Michael Corleone seeking redemption through the Vatican while simultaneously preparing his nephew (Andy Garcia) to take over the Corleone family, the film fails to take shape as a truly meaningful experience in the way the preceding movies do. Still, Pacino is very moving as an elder Michael, filled with regret and trying hard to make amends with his wife (Diane Keaton) and grown children (one of whom is played, and not all that well, by the director's daughter, Sofia Coppola). --Tom Keogh
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I'm so tired of people parroting the view that this installment of the 'Godfather' franchise is terrible. Generally speaking, I find it to the the most intriguing of the three films. It exposes you to the realm of the super powerful international cabals, which includes the Catholic Church. We're not talking about drugs, prostitution, and casinos anymore, but instead world wide corruption and power with roots a thousand years old. The mouth breathers who slam this film perhaps can not grasp the scope of the drama unfolding in front of them. I guess there aren't enough hits or something? By the way, the assasination of Joe Zaza is probably the best action sequence in the entire trilogy. Yes, Copolla's daughter is wooden. Some of Connie's scenes and dialog are awkward. But, Andy Garcia and Pacino are just outstanding, and the plot is thick and juicy enough to make this a very good film.
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I kept wishing the hit men would show and take out this movie after about an hour and a half. It was just plain bad. Long and boring. Bad sequence after bad sequence, it just kept getting worse. I finally gave up after 2 hours. I like most of the viewers am a Godfather fan and just wanted to complete the trilogy. I'll probably go back and finish the movie in a week or so just to know I did my duty as a fan of the very first two great movies. As far as I can tell though this movie should have never been made.
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The Godfather Part III is a great movie if you have watched the other two parts. As a stand alone movie, I can see why some people were not happy with it.
My sweetheart and I (reluctantly on my part) watched all three parts in a row for the very first time this summer. It was a spellbinding story, that is remarkable not for the evil it portrays, but in that it shows the small moves toward evil that lead us on a course that ends up in a personal hell.
For me Part III is an essential part of the story, showing that there is no good to come from a deal with the devil. Karma, Fate, what have you, will require payment sooner or later, and the Godfather ends up as a wonderfully poignant tragedy, rather that a cops and robbers kind of crime story.
For me the crux of the whole trilogy comes with Don Michael's confession to his ex-wife that all he ever wanted was to protect his family, and in the end he lost them anyway, paired with the final tragic event in the story, the heartbreaking reality, that in the end, someone always has to pay.
So here's the deal, don't bother to watch Part III without seeing the other two parts first, preferably in a marathon viewing, but if you watch it as part of the whole, you will probably find it a moving end to the saga.
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Mario Puzo's fascinating characters, together with fine acting and directing, made Godfather I & II masterpieces. Puzo was a real story teller. The dialogue was brilliant and unlike any movies before them. I never tire of watching them.
It doesn't appear that Puzo contributed much to the screenplay. Neither our love of the characters nor the amazing acting talent can overcome the lack of a consistent story line, the painful near reconciliation of Michael and Kay or the retread feel of the movie. Sophie Coppola is no actress, but Talia Shire as Connie was terrible. It was not really Shire's fault: Coppola takes the flighty, feminine Connie from Godfather I and turns her into an unconvincing, interfering "Godmother" -- ordering killings, etc. Al Pacino, as has been the case in the latter part of his career, overacted the part of Michael and essentially changed Michael from a serious, unsmiling, calculating, cold-blooded gangster/killer to an outgoing, expressive, gregarious, repentant philanthropist. The transformation, although years in the making, is not believable.
While expectations were high and unreachable, this movie is abysmal.
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I can't rave enough about this film. A stellar cinematic achievement. Its only fault is being the third part of the trilogy. It can't compare to the other films. I and II consistently rank among top ten films ever. This isn't in the top ten films ever. Certainly, it ranks amongst the top 20 percent. (I'd probably put it in the top one percent of all films. Too much has been made of this film to re-rank or replace it among the other two.
One of the shining parts of this film is its commentary. Much of the commentary on the very first two films are self-promotional. "I was great," "The studio hated me," etc. This commentary humbles Mr. Coppola. He becomes a strong pawn of the studio. Also interesting is the skeletonized version of the plot Mr. Coppola discusses of Godfather IV at the end of the film, rolling into the commentary, suggesting a film paralleling Godfather II (the rise of Vito in the Corleone family vs. the fall of Vincent Mancini & the Corleone family).
Also interesting are the discusion of casting decisions due to self-excising from the film of a few actors. Remember - the character of Clemenza was killed off entering the second film, and replaced by a 'parallel' actor, as well.
Finally - the decision of casting Sofia Coppola - certainly seen as a gross abuse of power. This casting decision could be paralleled to casting Talia Shire in the very first Godfather film. Certainly, it seemed to have worked in his favor. Too much criticism has been thrown upon her performance. She is more than competent, if not brilliant, in this role. She was even a far more experienced actress when cast in this film than Miss Shire was when cast in the Godfather. I don't see her as strikingly beautiful, but appropriately desirable. Certainly Miss Coppola has distinguished herself as an artist since.
Finally - the plot surrounding the dirty ascension of a pious man into the shoes of the Pope brilliantly paralleled a modern tale. It is the essential corruption and rejection of power and grace in a stunningly realistic tale. Even now, I shudder at the unmaking of a man who worked so hard to remake himself.
Mr. Coppola - I thank you for this story.
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