The Godfather, Part II Reviews
One of the most ambitious and brilliantly executed American films, a landmark work from one of Hollywood's top cinema eras.
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| Original Score: 4/4
TIME Magazine
Top CriticNot 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 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.
The stunning text of The Godfather is replaced in Part II with prologues, epilogues, footnotes, and good intentions.
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| Original Score: 3/4
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.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Few sequels have expanded upon the original with the faithfulness and detail of this one.
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| Original Score: 4/4
