The Best Way To End Trilogy

Rating: 10/10 (8 June 2006)

Being almost twenty years after Godfather 2, the third Godfather movie still lives up to the same potential after Godfathers 1 and 2, although not as much by just a little bit. Although, I still thought the movie was excellent because it still had the wonderful action and drama of the first two Godfathers.
Taking place years and years after the setting of 'The Godfather: Part II' we see Michael Corleone(Al Pacino), now aged and divorced from his wife Kay(Diane Keaton). His children are now full-grown adults and finds out he has a nephew named Vincent(Andy Garcia) who is the illegitimate son of Michael's brother Sonny. Michael takes Vincent under his wing to replace him as Don while he goes out to Vatican City to repent for all of his sins, but then gets the shock of a lifetime when he finds out that his daughter Mary(Sofia Coppola) and Vincent are seeing each other... even though they're cousins! Now, the whole incest thing between Coppola and Garcia was a little shocking to me, but (and this is coming from a teen who's not an incest fan), I didn't mind it. In fact, I liked it (although this will be the only time I accept incest). It was a nice little twist to the final film.
Filled with an all-star cast, including Pacino, Keaton, Garcia, Coppola, Joe Mantegna, Talia Shire, and others, the final film to the Godfather series gives us the same amount of quality and potential that the first two movies had. I don't know why people bash it so much, because I thought it was really good. I think it deserves to be in the Top 250 Movies along with its two predecessors. It really was great; a true classic sequel to a sequel to an excellent movie.