Average Rating: 9.2/10
Reviews Counted: 58
Fresh: 57 | Rotten: 1
Drawing on strong performances by Al Pacino and Robert De Niro, Francis Ford Coppola's continuation of Mario Puzo's Mafia saga set new standards for sequels that have yet to be matched or broken.
Average Rating: 7.3/10
Critic Reviews: 6
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 1
Drawing on strong performances by Al Pacino and Robert De Niro, Francis Ford Coppola's continuation of Mario Puzo's Mafia saga set new standards for sequels that have yet to be matched or broken.
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Francis Ford Coppola's legendary continuation and sequel to his landmark 1972 film, The Godfather, parallels the young Vito Corleone's rise with his son Michael's spiritual fall, deepening The Godfather's depiction of the dark side of the American dream. In the early 1900s, the child Vito flees his Sicilian village for America after the local Mafia kills his family. Vito (Robert De Niro) struggles to make a living, legally or illegally, for his wife and growing brood in Little Italy, killing the
Dec 20, 1974 Wide
May 24, 2005
Paramount Pictures
All Critics (58) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (66) | Rotten (2) | DVD (33)
Not once does Pacino overtly ask for the audience's sympathy, but through a disciplined, suggestive performance he dominates the film.
Top CriticThe 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.
From start to finish, this is filmmaking at its most immortal.
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.
Thirty-seven years after this came out, it is still one of the most thrilling movies out there. Al Pacino and Diane Keaton have to be the most unlikely couple ever cooked up by Hollywood, but their chemistry is real. The story lines never seem implausable and they succeed in making criminals sympathetic. The scenes
May 22, 2012
Super Reviewer
The sequel to Coppola's classic mafia crime story both continues the events around Michael Corleone and takes us back to his father's life story. Michael, wonderfully portrayed by Al Pacino, seems to get more ruthless, unsympathetic and paranoid while ruling his empire with an iron fist. He still has to fight the
June 13, 2006Super Reviewer
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