the much dreaded let-down scenerio

Rating: 7/10 (17 September 2018)

Like many people I anticipated the arrival of Godfather 3 but was left cold by it. At the time I zeroed my dislike to the universally accepted scapegoat, Sofia Coppola's stale performance, after the talented Winona Ryder bailed on the project. After multiple viewings I suddenly realized that, for me anyway, Al Pacino's performance is what turned me off. He was not the younger, subtle and starving artist Pacino of the early 1970's as in the first two films, but the older super-star whose strong acting style had already by 1990, become a parody of itself.