The Godfather, Part II

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Marissa Q The movie was fantastic. I have seen it numerous times at home on the small screen but to see it on a huge screen in a theater is how a movie is meant to be seen! Great experience. Only one complaint: the server was HORRIBLE! It took him 30 minutes into the movie to bring my husband his drink and popcorn. and this was after a number of times stopping him and asking him about this order. Others came later than I did and placed their orders while in the theater. My husband and I placed our orders when we showed our QR code. The server was snarky, horrible, unhelpful and deliberately holding up our order as other late movie goers were receiving their orders before ours. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 05/01/23 Full Review kish b ★★★★★ The Godfather Part II is not merely a sequel; it is the rare film that towers even higher than its perfect predecessor, a devastating, majestic double-epic that somehow manages to be both the greatest prequel and the greatest sequel ever made at the same time. Francis Ford Coppola doesn’t continue the story; he fractures it across two timelines and watches the Corleone soul rot in real time. Young Vito (Robert De Niro in a performance of quiet, terrifying dignity) rises from Sicilian orphan to American patriarch with the slow, inexorable grace of a lion claiming his territory. Meanwhile, Michael (Al Pacino at the absolute peak of his powers) descends from reluctant don to hollow-eyed emperor, systematically destroying everything he once claimed to protect. The parallel editing is genius: every time we see Vito hug his children, we cut to Michael alone in a colder, bigger room. Every time Vito earns loyalty through love, Michael buys it with fear. By the final flash of that heartbreaking final shot (Michael sitting utterly alone on a winter bench), you realize the tragedy isn’t that Michael became his father; it’s that he became everything his father never was. The cast is flawless: De Niro’s Italian-only dialogue feels lived-in and mythic, Pacino’s eyes go from wounded to dead across three hours, Diane Keaton’s quiet rage finally explodes, John Cazale’s Fredo breaks your heart in every scene he’s in (that "I’m smart!" speech still hurts), and Robert Duvall’s Tom Hagen is the last honest man watching the family die. Even the smaller roles (Lee Strasberg’s chilling Hyman Roth, Michael V. Gazzo’s tragic Frankie Five Angels) are perfect. The scope is insane: Ellis Island, 1917 New York tenements, 1950s Havana, Senate hearings, Lake Tahoe snow; every location feels real enough to touch. Gordon Willis paints with shadows again, Nino Rota’s score aches, and the baptism-of-fire montage is replaced by something even more brutal: the slow, methodical assassination of Michael’s soul across an entire film. Most sequels shrink the original. Part II expands it into Shakespearean tragedy on an American scale. It’s colder, longer, sadder, and infinitely more profound. Fifty years later it still feels like the pinnacle of what cinema can achieve. 10/10. "I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart." And it still breaks mine every single time. 🍷❄️🖤 Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 11/17/25 Full Review Graham B. I think that it’s the greatest sequel of all time Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 11/15/25 Full Review Audience Member Francis Ford Coppola continues the mafia saga in stellar fashion. great performances by Al Pacino and Robert Di Niro. Another masterpiece only beaten by its predecessor The Godfather Part 1. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 11/15/25 Full Review Estefania O The Godfather Part II deepens the myth with surgical precision — a cold, tragic elegy where power devours everything, even the soul that sought to save it. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 11/11/25 Full Review George W Even worst than The Godfather, if such a thing were possible. Coppola is with Hitchcock one of the most overrated directors in the history of cinema. The Conversation is great but it's downhill from there. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 10/12/25 Full Review Read all reviews

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