Im-mo-bi-li-are-reeee!

Rating: 3/10 (27 February 2009)

I heard the word over and over and over until I got sick. Kept wanting to scream in the theater: "So what the heck is Immobiliare???" The film never explains coherently it's use in G3's storyline. It's just thrown out there like everything else and other than the common factor of a falling body at a given sub-plot's climax, nothing fits. And no exception, all corpses fallings are outrageously funny–especially... erhm, was that the Pope? There was one cleric bearing a strong resemblance to John Paul I–Hey does it matter it was the Pope? The fall was a hoot. I should be repelled by the callousness these people were killed but all I can do was laugh–this never happened when I watched 1st 2 Godfather Movies, Goodfellas, Bugsy. Except for the most moving scene in the film, Michael talking about his guilt over whacking Fredo with a priest–what do priests have to do with what's going on? Also stomach turning...It wasn't so much Sofia's amateurish acting but her smile. Every time seeing it why was I reminded of someone struggling keeping a big piece of snot in the nose? Distracting as was the Immobiliare cow moo. But what shocked me most of all was Connie–Was she on drugs or booze or wanted have a relationship with only surviving brother Mike she didn't put two and two together about what happened to Fredo? She sure knew who was responsible for 1st hubby Carlo's getting whacked. Where was G1 and G2's character who was shrewish but smart when it came to being a woman in a mafia family. When she yapped about Fredo being drowned that started my down slide thinking this film muddled tripe. The incest subplot was icky but it and Michael remembering his first wife and guilt-ridden over Fredo half way made sense. The passing of mantle to Sonny's son was just not developed, the Zaza friction thing had one scene-one that was worth watching and like the Sonny's son story sloppily written. The whole thing was poorly done, disjointed and jumpy. New York, Sicily, Vatican--Immobiliare! Rate it 3 for the funny falling corpses.