"Part III is solid, fine, even breathtaking film-making, but unquestionably inferior to Part I + II

Rating: 8/10 (31 July 2007)

The Godfather Part III (1990)
Top 5 - 1990
Top 50 - 1990s
The third part to Francis Ford Coppola's groundbreaking, stunning trilogy of the mafia and its derivatives. It could have ended in 1974 with the exceptional Part II. The second film perhaps could have been even longer to give us an encapsulation of what happened to the Corleone family in the following decades.
Part III, is in no way a bad film, in fact it is a very good, solid piece of film-making, but when compared to the towering first two parts of the trilogy, it is inferior. This is a further study of the Corleone family and the Italian mafia with a greying Don Michael struggling to make deals with the Vatican and legitimise his empire.
Francis Ford Coppola assembled a cast for the ages again and writes another superb screenplay to assist Godfather Part III and cement it as a very good film.
"A fine film. III is very good"
"A solid conclusion to a masterful trilogy"
8/10