The Godfather Part III - The Coppola Restoration | 
| Actors: Al Pacino, Andy Garcia
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
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Rating:  189 reviews
Sales Rank: 10750
Format: Ac-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd, Restored, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 2
Running Time: 162 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 132934
UPC: 097361329345
EAN: 0097361329345
ASIN: B0019L21H4
Theatrical Release Date: December 20, 1990
Release Date: September 23, 2008
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Sixteen years after Francis Ford Coppola won his second Oscar for The Godfather II (his 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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 Objectively speaking June 4, 2009
Jammer
Here is my review friends.
Academy Award Nominations for Godfather 3:
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Best Art Direction-Set Decoration
Best Cinematography
Best Director
Best Film Editing
Best Music
Best Picture (Yes it WAS nominated for Best Picture:-)
Additional award
Best Director: Francis Ford Coppola
1990 Hollywood Foreign Press Association
 Pan the Tan Man May 18, 2009
martrobber (Birmingham, AL)
Allowing George Hamilton to have ANY part in this film was enough to downgrade it to 1-star! What potential, yet unrealized brilliance this movie represents! Apparently by the time it was created, Coppola had completely moved on to the wine business.......
Downgraded due to expectations and nepotism May 4, 2009
Action Jackson (Illinois)
This probably should be a 3 star in a vacuum, but its a sequel so it is fair to judge it in context. The first two Godfather movies are two of the greatest films ever. Therefore, expectations were this would be a very good movie at a minimum. When I go back to I & II, III pops up in my head from time to time making those less enjoyable. So I downgrade beause I was very disappointed and it impacts I & II it's so bad.
Upside: Andy Garcia was very good in this movie.
 Only suffers in comparison to the first two films April 20, 2009
Mark J. Fowler (Okinawa, Japan)
Some reviews can't blast this film enough:
"There's no sugarcoating the magnitude of the cinematic disaster that "Part III" represents."
"Let's all hope that there will be no Part IV."
I think a bandwagon of bashing gathered momentum, and for those who like to look for chinks in the armor, this film seemed the opportunity to throw stones. I say wait and see: in years to come history will mark part III as a fitting conclusion to the Corleone saga. No, it is not a masterpiece of the stature of the first two Coppola classics, but dear friends, I'd argue neither were "Casino" or "Goodfellas" or "Once Upon a Time in America", and although those mafia-themed films are all highly acclaimed, none of them reach the heights of the first two Godfather films, and that shouldn't be held against them. Neither should it be held against GF III.
Francis Coppola and Mario Puzo returned to the characters they know better than anyone, and fashioned a tale that dovetails believably into the Corleone history of the first two films.
Al Pacino returns as Don Michael Corleone. Michael has the strength and cunning of his father, Vito, and an almost superhuman ability to foresee future events. But where the great Vito Corleone also had a keen devotion to family and compassion for his fellow man, Michael has a cold ruthlessness that allows him to order the murder of family members.
Michael is a tragic character. In the opening of the first film (and we are told in Puzo's original novel) Michael is something of a disappointment to his father and family exactly because he does not want to join the family business. He enlists in the Marines after Pearl Harbor, even though his father has pulled strings to keep him out of the military. He's planning a career as a teacher, married to his college sweetheart, but even the enemies of the family know that Michael is an outsider in the family business.
The attempted murder of his father pulls Michael quickly into the inner circle. Circumstances outside his control compel him to become exactly the person he does not want to be.
In an early scene in part II wife Kay (wonderfully played by Diane Keaton in all the films) reminds Michael that seven years earlier he had promised her that the family would be "completely legitimate" within five years.
Part III opens with Michael receiving a high Catholic honor, bestowed on behalf of the Pope himself. The Church is in trouble. (Based on the real-life papal banking scandal of the early `80s.) Michael is willing to give Archbishop Gilday, the Vatican banker, 600 million in exchange for control of Immobiliare, the largest real estate and construction company in Italy. When the Archbishop tells Michael that it will be difficult to get the Vatican to approve this deal, Michael says that the family has completely given up all illegitimate businesses. This storyline drives the rest of the film.
The Corleones have sold their Vegas hotels and casinos and the other families, used to wetting their beaks in the Corleone fountain, feel left behind as Michael tries to move his family completely away from organized crime.
Talia Shire returns again as Michael's sister, Connie, and her role is amplified as counselor as well. Women are marginalized and completely outside the family business in the earlier films. Connie is also a mentor and proponent for the next up-and-coming Corleone, Sonny's illegitimate son Vincent, played with intelligence and menace by Andy Garcia in perhaps his first major screen role. (Coppola seems to have a particular genius for finding and using acting giants before they are well known. Pacino, Keaton, Robert Deniro, Robert Duvall and John Cazale were all relatively unknown before appearing in the first films.)
Much has been made of daughter Sofia Coppola playing Michael's daughter Mary. The truth is, she has the look, but the romance between Mary and Vincent seems more awkward than passionate, and since Vincent is smart and ambitious, it doesn't make much sense that he would pursue Mary for any reason other than passion since Michael discourages their pairing. Naysayers can't help but mention that Winona Ryder dropped out of this part at the last minute. (To make Edward Scissorhands.) I can't help but be reminded of the critical thrashing Angelica Huston took for playing the lead in an early film of her famous father, prior to an acting career that resulted in an Academy Award. Hopefully Ms. Coppola takes some satisfaction that her career progressed to Oscar nominations as a director herself. In short - she is not so bad that she ruins this film.
Robert Duvall is missed as Tom Hagen, and George Harrison is bland as new family attorney B.J. Harrison.
The business subplot runs parallel with the plot of the torment of Michael. As he grows older, and makes more attempts to get out of crime, he nonetheless sees death and tragedy in his wake. He wants to make amends. He wants to leave a legacy for his children and to reconcile with Kay, and some of the strongest scenes in the film are when he seems to be succeeding, if only a little. At one point he consults a priest he thinks will have insight into the Immobiliare deal. This wise priest feels that Michael has a need for confession. Startled, Michael admits he hasn't confessed in thirty years. The priest coaxes Michael because "it's never too late", and the work of the two actors in this scene is exceptional.
There is a format to the three films: all begin with a large ensemble celebratory scene which includes a few private moments to set the story in motion. All end with a montage of murder as Corleone enemies are eliminated. There is a style and elegance and richness in The Godfather films that exists in this one as well.
The first two movies won "Best Picture". The last of "The Lord of the Rings" films did the same, but I don't recall vitriol being spread on the LOTR films that did not. The Godfather part III should be enjoyed not for what it is not, but for what it is.
The Godfather Part III DVD April 2, 2009
Moises Hidalgo
The DVD was in great condition, although I was greatly disappointed with the movie itself.
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