The Godfather III serves as the final chapter in the series, showing the viewers the beginning of the next generation of the Corleone family dynasty. The themes of the series are continued in this film, namely the duality of doing the wrong things for the right reasons. The values of loyalty and family are contrasted with crime and evil acts.In the final film of the series, Michael Corleone has grown older and the actions of his past begin to haunt him with guilt. Along with losing his family in the previous films, Michael's unhappiness drives him to atone for his sins. Despite his charitable actions, his nephew, Vincent, begins to follow in his uncle's footsteps. This is a different form of the vigilante philosophy that usually drives the protagonists of the series, as the head of the family desires to "go clean", while others participate in the older, more violent, methods.Like the previous installments in the series, the film does have a long running time. Unfortunately, unlike the other films in the series, Godfather III doesn't stand on its own. The third film serves as a bookend to the other films, or as Coppola said himself, an epilogue to the story. Part III may not hold up as well as the first two films, but that only speaks to how good The Godfather I and II are. The Godfather III is still a great movie and worth watching.

As much as it pains me to say so, given this is one of "The Godfather" titles, this film is an unfortunate bookend to an otherwise timelessly classic, beautifully written, impeccably acted, and hauntingly filmed saga. The storyline should have ended with the time-jumping, prequel flashbacks which filled in the rich backstory of the Corleone family in The Godfather: Part II. I rated The Godfather: Part III a six (6) star rating based on the films lineage. Also, I gave the film an additional rating star for each of the actors reprising their respective roles and given their acting linage. (This is not a one to ten rating of the actors themselves--only additional start ratings for them film itself): one (1) star for Al Pacino, one (1) star for Diane Keaton, and one (1) star for Talia Shire. For the storyline a negative two (-2), and for associating itself with the first two films a negative two (-2); it fell far short of earning the privilege of being one of "The Godfather" films. Alas, it receives a 5/10 rating...a generous gift.

Not as bad as some make it out to be, but definitely falls well short of the first two movies.Provides decent (albeit somewhat unnecessary) closure to Michael's story, but almost everything else about it is fairly dull and uninteresting... whereas how Godfather parts 1 and 2 had a time dilation effect that made 90 minutes fly by in what felt like only 30, part 3 unfortunately had the inverse effect on me.I will say that Sofia Coppola's performance, while certainly bad, wasn't as horrible or as detrimental to the film as I was led to believe.I rate movies either "awful", "bad", "so-so", "good", or "great". My rating for The Godfather Part III is "so-so", which I've decided equates to 5/10 on IMDb's rating scale.

Film Review: "The Godfather: Part III" (1990) The first cut opened with a money transfer from the Corleone family to the Vatican Bank over 600 Million Dollars that initial motion for "The Godfather: Part III" directed by Francis Ford Coppola and originally written together with novelist Mario Puzo had been too provocative for the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) in order to license the motion picture in time for a scheduled release on December 25th 1990. Director Francis Ford Coppola had to recut the picture, which nevertheless delivers the goods of the first two installments with moving the Corleone Clan to a fully-occupied Penthouse story at Park Avenue in Manhattan, New York. The Nevada home of "The Godfather: Part II" (1974) completely abandoned and ruined, which became under musical score by Francis' father Carmine Coppola (1910-1991) an as memorable opener for the picture in today's retrospective.Actor Al Pacino, aging into the role of Don Corleone to perform as the Godfather as actor Marlon Brando (1924-2004) before him at the age of 48 to 50, shares a fine evolution of a career-defining performance without compromising newly introduced character of Vincent Manzini, portrayed by actor Andy Garcia bowing to an immense character arc in nearly three hour of running time as the Sonny Corleone's bastard son to earn his strip in Michael Corleone's organization, who abandoned gambling for the real estate business, following a charity foundation party event as opening sequence instead of a wedding occasion as in the first two film, where nevertheless running the obligatory business affairs through the Don Corleone's office of the year 1979.The picture editorial accelerates with building nemesis characters for the new struggle for power with Eli Wallach (1915-2014) and Joe Mantegna performing a conspiracy-indulging double team to challenge the Corleone Clan. Under action-oriented character of Vincent Mancini, actor Andy Garcia pushes through his scenes with utmost of self-esteem and security, earning him an Academy Award Nomination as Best Supporting Actor in 1991, further making an impossible scene work with hopelessly overthrown acting later-accomplished Director Sofia Coppola kissing the character of Vincent toward intercourse as her natural cousin, while the Corleone's return to the family origins in Sicily, Italia, where the character of Kay, performed by Diane Keaton and Al Pacino have the most beautiful scene in reminiscencing the past (1950s) to present (1980s), before Director Francis Ford Coppola exceeds himself with a 30-Minute-opera sequence to conclude the saga on Mafia affairs in America to motion picture satisfactions all around.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)