A superb, yet confusing movie

Rating: 9/10 (20 May 2004)

"The Godfather" is an extremely well known movie and one that
this reviewer just recently saw for the first time. There is a lot of
talk about it being the best movie ever made but honestly, there
are other movies that could be better. The cast was made up of
some pretty famous actors and they all did marvelous acting jobs.
The movie definitely wasn't lacking in that area. It was a big
attention getter in the way that there could be a scene where the
actors would be talking and talking, which isn't too exciting, and
then soon after it would be like "BAM!" and there was action. It
would certainly wake up anyone in the audience who might have
been dozing off. All in all, the movie didn't have too much talk, or
too much action, it was just the right amount of both.
It did have a superflous amount of special effects though, most
being gun shots and explosions. Considering the fact that the
movie is about the life of a crime family, the enormous amount of
killing that there is throughout the film isn't too suprising. Maybe a
little disturbing, but not suprisng. This reviewer has never seen a
movie with as much killing as "The Godfather." It was like
someone was killed from this family, so they killed the person who
did the killing. Then that family killed the person who killed their
family member and it went on like that back and forth and back and
forth, if that even makes sense. It was like an argument. Person #
1 says something to person # 2, so person #2 says something
back to person #1 and so on and so on. There was just an
excessive amount of killing. In fact, all the killing is sort of the thing
that the viewer might remember the most about "The Godfather." This movie does something that a lot of movies dare not do. It lets
some main characters die. That is probably the most unpredictable aspect of the entire movie. When people watch
movies they don't expect any main characters to die and they rarely
ever do. The fact that "The Godfather" does this, although it is
sad, is stupendous. The plot of the movie revolves around the crime family, Corleone.
It basically follows their lives during a certain period of time. What
that period of time is, this reviewer does not exactly know. In most
movies, when there has been a big time difference they say at the
bottom of the screen, "one year later" or something like that. "The
Godfather" does not do that. Instead of putting the time change
into words at the bottom of the screen it's put into words that the
actors say. It makes it so the audience has to listen very closely to
the movie to hear how long its been since something happened.
This reveiwer thinks that this is done because when words are put
at the bottom of the screen, like subtitles, it distracts the viewer's
attention away from the movie and what is going on. In "The
Godfather" there is not this problem. The clothing worn in the movie wasn't anything like big, fancy
costumes, but there was something about them that was quite
interesting. If the viewer was really paying attention to the actors'
outfits they would notice that the men are always wearing some
type of suit. They're never caught walking around in casual wear,
just suits. And the women are always wearing dresses. They
don't wear pants with t-shirts, they wear dresses. Tha'ts pretty
grand if you ask me. "The Godfather" was a very superb movie, but there are others that
are better. It's worst feature is the enormous amount of killing. It
is entertaining to watch, but it's not one that this reviewer would
want to watch over and over again.