What a waste of time

Rating: 1/10 (7 October 2009)

This movie was painful to finish. I felt like I was watching paint dry. Sure you can give it credit for getting the historic periods accurate but do set design, costumes and props make a great movie? I think not.
This actually could have easily been two movies and made each more bearable to watch though not anymore exciting.
The public's fascination with organized crime is very disturbing. These are hollow, morally void movies. So what the godfather was a "family man" that justifies his brutality? Just like people's attachment to the Godfather in the first movie because he didn't want to get into drugs and showed "loyalty" to his family (so long as he was king). You cannot sugar coat depravity and thuggery. They are what they are, pathetic and empty excuses for criminal behavior. Maybe people's lives are so boring they become mentally disturbed? I don't know, I am simply trying to rationalize this behavior. Idolizing criminals who get weak-minded people to fear them and then pretend themselves to be "emperors" among their "subjects" is downright pathetic. I suspect people pretend in their own minds to have this control over others, this fake respect and false sense of self-worth.
This is how I imagine they envision it,
"Hey look I'm a dumb Sicilian who says stupid phrases with double meanings and then brutally murders others. But it is OK because everything is about the fake "family" not the narcissistic personality disorder. Play some crappy music from the old country and drink some bad "vino". Make sure to speak in broken English gibberish with an Italian accent. Yes you too can be a loser thug."
is your life this pathetic? Don't answer that (we know it is).
All I wanted to see was Michael Corleone die and he never died. He just kept brooding on and on and on for 3 hours! For some reason Michael can just kill everyone he wants in the last five minutes of every movie yet no one can kill him? Apparently he always wears full body armor and drives around only in a tank? Yet in the movie he frequently goes all over the place in just a regular suit and car. How is this so? Maybe his magic fear aura just repels anyone who would ever think of killing him!
The fans of these movies miss the obvious because they are so into Al Pacino brooding around posing for the camera and fantasizing of being the Godfather.
What a waste of time.