The Godfather Part III

Name: The Godfather Part III
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Released: 1990

Francis Ford Coppola

1990

2.00

Synopsis

In the midst of trying to legitimize his business dealings in 1979 New York and Italy, aging mafia don, Michael Corleone seeks forgiveness for his sins while taking a young protege under his wing.

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Al PacinoMichael Corleone
Diane KeatonKay Adams
Talia ShireConnie Corleone Rizzi
Andy GarcíaVincent Mancini
Eli WallachDon Altobello
Joe MantegnaJoey Zasa
George HamiltonB.J. Harrison
Bridget FondaGrace Hamilton
Sofia CoppolaMary Corleone
Raf ValloneCardinal Lamberto

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100
Entertainment Weekly
In this brilliantly sustained climax, Coppola unveils a vision of corruption that embraces the entire world, but he's also reveling in sheer theatrical magic in a way that only a master can.
90
Variety
Part III matches its predecessors in narrative intensity, epic scope, socio-political analysis, physical beauty and deep feeling for its characters and milieu.
88
Chicago Sun-Times
It's strange how the earlier movies fill in the gaps left by this one, and answer the questions. 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.
88
ReelViews
One of the most obvious problems with The Godfather Part III is that it covers little new territory. The plot is highly derivative of the original.
80
Chicago Reader
A provocative and stirring climax to the Corleone saga, as well as an autonomous work that sometimes shows Coppola at his near best.
75
USA Today
Alas, what you've heard about Sofia Coppola (as Michael's daughter) is true; she swallows words and speaks “valley girl.'' What a difference Winona Ryder would have made. [24 Dec 1990, Life, p.1D]
50
Chicago Tribune
An air of embarrassing familiarity hangs over the entire project, as if it were a story told by an aging relative not quite aware of how many times, and how much better, he has been over the same material before. [25 Dec 1990, Tempo, p.1]
40
The New Yorker
Lightning didn't strike three times; the movie is lumbering... I don't think it's going to be a public humiliation, and it's too amorphous to damage our feelings about the first two. [1 Jan 1991]

The Godfather Part III

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