complete replica of the first

Rating: 7/10 (24 September 2003)

When people say that the first Godfather movie is the best overall, concerning the trilogy, I have to argue the fact that even though it was the first, the unorigionality which has transcened into the final part is just a relaying of Godfafther Part One, which leads me to the conclusion on the basis of pure foundation and and self-defining that Godfather part two was the finest of the trilogy, individually, of course.
Clearly in the third and final part of the corleone story it is visible in some parts that, the third invisages aspects of the first. Coppola's transparency and inability to do anything origional with the conclusion, even with his relunctance to do a third, was clearly visible.
For example some uncanny comparsions between 1and3, is the basic parallels which they have, such as there's a party at the start, (the wedding, part 1, the church's recog. of michael, part 3), michael is a mirror image of his father, vito, in terms of morals etc, michael like his dad, is hospitalised, by the consquences of his buisness, there, like barzini, is a young, celebrity gangster, Joey Sasa is backed by a close friend and business partner of michael, and similar to part 1, an assanation plot is carried out. A new don comes to power in Vinny, like michael.