Coppola's Masterpiece

Rating: 10/10 (12 March 2018)

When a movie isn't called one of the greatest of all time, then high expectations are bound to come. Sadly, this means some people will be disappointed. I've felt the same way about Dr. Strangelove and Back to the Future. So every movie has naysayers, just how it is. But I am always astoundes when I hear someone does not like The Godfather.
It really is the closet thing to a perfect film that I have ever seen. From the story, the production, direction, and of course, the acting. Brando puts on his greatest performance. Pachino, Duvall, Keaton and Caan also put on extraordinary performances. The movie is long but never boring. It always manages to keep you interested even in the more slow parts. That is good filmmaking.
The music is haunting and beautiful and fits the film like a glove. The story never glorifies the lifestyle. It takes great care to show the characters best and worst sides of themselves. They are all fully realized and incredibly well developed. It shows the saga of a crime families rise, fall and rise again, in the most epic fashion.
Im still pretty young, in my early 20s, and I'm hoping to be a movie critic someday. I don't think I could have picked a better movie to review.
Francis Ford Coppola has made at least three of the greatest movies ever made. This movie, it's sequel, and Apocolypse Now. Some say Seven Samurai, some might say Casablanca, others Citizen Kane, but in my mind, and many others minds, This is the greatest movie ever made.