Vendetta!!!!

Rating: 3/10 (19 December 2001)

-Hollywood editor is mysteriously whacked thereby allowing delusional self important director to run amok and release a completely bloated un-edited nightmare, that is nothing short of epic badness.
FF Coppola immortalized himself by making arguably 2 of the greatest films ever, Godfather and Godfather II. But like many of us, he then got old, fat and a lot less brilliant. The result was the release of this unsought and completely superfluous 3rd film, which is remarkable only as a testament to bad film-making, bad judgment and the fleeting quality of genius. Godfather 3 has indeed become nearly as famous for its badness as its 2 predecessors were for their excellence. What i will say on its behalf, is that it probably could have been salvaged and but for a horrible non-existent editing job, might have been OK. Much could be repaired by merely chopping the more idiotic dialog exchanges that infect nearly every scene. Only in some instances i think are the scenes themselves wholly idiotic enough to just be omitted completely. It would be challenging but interesting to re-edit, because the movie for all of its deserved bad press, has a lot of good stuff within and the story I have found after repeated viewings that the story is interesting. Its just weighed down utterly by too many scenes containing horrendous acting with actual laugh inducing moronic dialog, that never should have left the cutting room, if a cutting room actually existed. I think I finally see exactly what Coppola was trying to do, and the idea was a good one. Yet I also see how fine the line is between a good film maybe even a better than average film, and a joke like this one. We all know how many 'takes' go into each and every scene before one is selected for the final print. Now imagine taking all the Worst takes, and this is what you would get. Completely baffling.