Strange but fascinating

Rating: 7/10 (17 July 2018)

No, it's not as good as the other two by any stretch, and some scenes are downright strange. It suffers seriously from a lack of DUvall/Hagen. Why it's about accounting in the Vatican I really don't know. But the relationships between the core characters and young lovers feel like a natural evolution from where we left them, and that quotable line, "JUST WHEN I THINK IM OUT, THEY PULL ME BACK IN" is from this one, and don't you forget it. Coppola wanted to call this "the death of michael corleone" and sell it as an EPILOGUE to the first two masterpieces. Viewed with that understanding, its faults are much more forgivable and its pace appropriate. And listen, I am just not here for Sofia-bashing. She was young and inexperienced. She gave a somewhat stiff but in many scenes quite lovely performance. She talks and acts like a real rich teenager, not like a trained actress. And she never did anything to hurt you, so don't be mean.