Another movie we can't refuse.

Rating: 10/10 (7 October 2002)

Very few sequels ever do the original justice. They may be good, but they are almost always inferior to the original... Now there are the few that actually ARE as good as the original. The Godfather Part II is one of those movies. In fact, I'm still having trouble deciding whether I liked Part I or II better. They were both very well done.
First, there's Al Pacino. That guy knows how to act, there's no question about that. He played the part very well. In the first movie, he was the innocent guy who wanted nothing to do with his family. In this movie, I almost hated him.
Then there were the flashback sequences. Those were great. Those flashbacks played with my mind. I completely despised one of the characters from the flashback, but when they killed him, I felt sympathy for the poor guy. In fact, this movie does that in several scenes.
The story of this movie is only matched by that of the original. There's not much backing up I can do here. The stories are obviously similar, so if you liked one, you'll like the other.
This movie is without a doubt the greatest sequel of all time. It lives up to its predecessor, which is one of the greatest movies of the industry. If you have not seen this yet, I make you another offer you can't refuse: go see it.