Magnificent.

Rating: Null/10 (20 January 1999)

The Godfather is a film that can be easily described not as a gangster flick, but more like an opera. We see the struggle of one family trying to run the business in a world where rival families will do anything to muscle them out of the way. Al Pacino is the doomed Michael who will one day take over the family business. Try as he might to avoid it, it is his destiny. The cast is outstanding, the script is top notch and what other film could spend the entire first forty minutes at a wedding? Watch this with the equally great Godfather Part II and the follow up Godfather III. Some will say that Godfather III is the weakest one of them all. I say it is a perfect ending to an opera of one of the greatest gangster sagas of all time.