Terrible, Junk Film

Rating: 10/10 (19 January 2006)

"The Godfather" is a 'terrible' film.
It's 'the worst' movie I've seen in a decade. The acting in this film is 'excruciatingly painful'. The whole family are 'watered down Sopranos' who show some phenomenally strong 'lack of' chemistry. The 'boring' weeding scene is the 'highlight'.
Michael is a 'wet fish' and his relationship with Kay is very dumb, and also 'stupid' and 'weird'. The Godfather scenes make me 'sick' and 'woozy'. I haven't seen such dramatized 'try to be cool' dialogue since "Any Given Sunday".
Pacino was less wooden in "Gigli". That other film he also 'carried'. Both Puzo and Brest were largely let down thanks to this 'Tony Montana' The characters of Sonny and Fredo were so 'unrealistic' I thought they were 'comic book'. I must also highly criticize the music in this film as being 'childish' and sometimes often 'out of place'.
Now on to some other failings of this 'pathetic' movie. The dialogue was 'silly'. If it was supposed to be nail-biting, well, it 'failed'. The manner in which the actors delivered their lines was 'uninspiring'. Brando in particular 'sucked'. What about the 'long' and 'tired' Sicily scenes? Reference to four hours of "Lawrence of Arabia" I don't know? The car exploding was so 'unoriginal' and 'clichÃ©d'. And the 'take over' cross baptism montage. Come on, do some CGI instead! Bah, 'armatures'.
How this is ranked above that masterpiece "Muriel's Wedding" stumps me. If they had replaced the old and tired Francis Ford with the more youthful Nicolas they might have hit pay dirt.