What Did You Want After Sixteen Years?

Rating: 10/10 (20 January 2008)

I've barely been alive longer than that and can already appreciate the fact that, even though it is considered by many to be the worst of them all, GP3 is *well* worth whatever wait there was.
Despite its numerous shortcomings (Sofia Coppola, Bridget Fonda, Sofia Coppola, Sofia Coppola, etc.), it is able to rank almost in the high esteem of its predecessors because it is a story that is more about redemption. As it should be after two films of Michael's (Al Pacino) continuing descent into crime, both legal and spiritual.
And GP3 is a more spiritual film, focusing most of the movie's attention on the Vatican and corruption therein. So the intended message of the movie may have been lost in all the stabbings, shootings, and lynchings (that's right, there is a lynching). But it doesn't matter because one message still remains. A message echoed when Michael tells his children, "More than all the money and power on Earth, you are my treasure." Not a great line, but it reminds us of why we love these movies.
Family above all else.