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Not once does Pacino overtly ask for the audience's sympathy, but through a disciplined, suggestive performance he dominates the film.
The Paramount release has everything going for it.
Francis Ford Coppola pulls it off in grand style.
The stunning text of The Godfather is replaced in Part II with prologues, epilogues, footnotes, and good intentions.
It's a second movie made largely out of the bits and pieces of Mr. Puzo's novel that didn't fit into the first. It's a Frankenstein's monster stitched together from leftover parts. It talks. It moves in fits and starts but it has no mind of its own.
Few sequels have expanded upon the original with the faithfulness and detail of this one.
A rare sequel that is even better than the original 1972 The Godfather, largely due to the superb performances by De Niro (as the young Brando character), Pacino, who here assumes the lead, and the rest of the ensemble.
Part II is brilliant, but not for kids.
Often ranked as the greatest movie sequel ever produced, The Godfather: Part II follows Al Pacino's Michael Corleone as he teams up with gangster Hyman Roth (Lee Strasberg) in an effort to expand his empire into the lucrative world of gambling.
Has an even broader scope than the original, but does not fail in its depiction of small, intimate moments and surprising emotional reveals.
Although it runs a bit long, The Godfather: Part II is still an excellent film.
While I'm sure profits were a big part of the conversation the Paramount suits had when deciding to green-light The Godfather Part II, but Coppola didn't go out and bastardize the franchise. Far from it.
Paramount gave Coppola more money and a freer hand in directing the sequel.... I guess they made him an offer he couldn't refuse. (Blu-ray Edition)
...an epic landscape of events and an exquisite tapestry of characterizations.
It's not Shakespearean, but it's tragic.
The greatest sequel ever made. Probably.
Shadows lurk throughout the movie, as they do over the Corleones' lives.
A mesmerizing sequel that explores the parallels in the life of father and son.
A rare sequel to a great film that recaptures and expands upon the mastery of its predecessor.
O segundo ato da obra máxima do Cinema.
The performances, Gordon Willis' memorably gloomy camerawork, the stately pace and the sheer scale of the story's sweep render everything engrossing and so, well, plausible that our ideas of organised crime in America will forever be marked by this movie.
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