Don Vincenzio

Rating: 6/10 (14 January 2007)

After sixteen years, a third GODFATHER movie is in our midst. I think the whole Coppola family had a hand in making this movie. They probably should have changed the Corleone family to the Coppola family.
This movie isn't as good as the other two, but it still isn't bad. Michael is trying to redeem himself by going into legitimate business and making generous contributions to the church. However, he finds out that the hierarchy of the church is just as crooked and dangerous as the Mafia. Did this movie perhaps foresee the scandal problems of the Catholic church? Who knows? There is even some suggestions that some Mafia members had moles inside the church who possibly assassinated Pope John Paul I. How's that for stirring up a hornet's nest of controversy? Now, the bad part. The ending sucked wind. I mean, what the hell was that all about? In the next to the last scene, Michael's daughter Mary is murdered by a hired assassin. In the next, Michael is sitting outside a little house in Sicily and falls out of a chair. Then the screen goes dark and the credits roll. WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT? I know he died in that scene, but the ending looked like something that was cut and pasted on the last scene. There is no transition to this scene, just a montage of scenes from the other two movies to the accompaniment of CAVALIERA RUSTICANA. Then, BOOM! An aged Michael Corleone is just barely able to put his glasses on before he falls dead out of his chair. Was this whole movie supposed to be a flashback or something? The ending really ruined it I thought. Sad ending to a great saga. 6 out of 10 for that lousy tacked on ending.