near the beginning of the godfather represent part iii and michael corleone son want to drop out of law school and become a musician . michael corleone do not want this . but his estranged ex wife and kay and manages to convince him to let anthony corleone pursue music a he wish . so he do . that seem like an odd way to start a review and a it be a minor plot point and have nothing really to do with the major action . just bear with me here while you will see where i be go with this eventually . now let me tell you about the major plot . it be about michael corleone want to quit crime for good ( he have largely abandon all criminal element in his family business ) . but then along come vincent mancini and an illegitimate nephew and who be involve in a feud . so of course michael must endure yet another brush with criminality and gun violence and all that good gangster stuff . meanwhile and vincent have a semi incestuous affair with michael daughter mary . oh and and michael and kay be try to patch up all the horrid thing that happen at the end of part ii . it be like a soap opera . one horrid and awful and 169 minute soap opera . go be any sort of the sophistication and romance and and emotional relevance that make the first two movie hit home so hard . after a 16 year break in the franchise and francis ford coppola deliver a mess of sop and pretentiousness entirely incongruous with the first two film and once again prove his last great work be apocalypse now back in the 1970 . what bad and the godfather represent part iii isn not even a logical follow up of the godfather represent part ii . michael be a completely different person . he hasn not just go to seed ( which might be legitimate and even if it would be no fun to watch ) . he become a goody goody that try to fix all the tragedy that make part ii such a devastate masterpiece . his confession to the priest be bad enough and but that little diabetes attack in the middle push it over to nauseate . he also get back together with kay . for heaven sake and there be absolutely no way that should happen and a the 2nd movie make abundantly clear . she abort his baby and and his sicilian upbringing make him despise her for it . didn not francis ford coppola even think of these thing . and do not even get me start on mary and vincent affair . for a romance so forbidden and it be shockingly unengaging . sofia coppola act do nothing to help . she make the smart move of her life when she switch from in front of the camera to behind it and because she be possibly the bad actress i have ever see in a best picture nominee . every line she deliver be painfully memorize and and every time the drama rest on her act ability and all she elicit be inappropriate giggle . in the climactic scene i would not go into detail and but you will know which scene i be talk about when or if you watch it she look at michael and say and . daddy . i think i be mean to cry and but the line be deliver so poorly i burst out into long and loud laughter . now we get to the climax and and now you will also realize why i take time to start the review with a description of anthony corleone musical ambition . after 140 minute of petty drama and irrelevant happenstance and anthony corleone return . with an opera . so michael and kay and mary and and vincent go to see it and and for about 10 15 minute a couple killer walk around try to assassinate michael . about this climactic sequence and i must say one thing represent it be really good . but not because of the killer they be pretty boring . i just really like the opera . it have some great music and real great set piece . and and from what little it show u and it seem that the story have echo of the corleone family origin . i will bet it be one swell opera and and i will bet michael corleone be glad he let his son switch from law school to music . my big wish be this represent that francis ford coppola have merely film anthony corleone opera for 169 minute and ditch the rest of the soggy melodrama . good yet and i wish he hadn not make the godfather represent part iii at all . part ii give u the perfect end . this spin off be self indulgent and unnecessary . p. s. this be not a gut reaction to the film . i watch all 3 godfather film over a month ago ( though i be rewatching the first one ) . not only do this mean that my expectation for part iii weren not screw ( in fact and i have set the bar rather low for it after what i heard ) and but it also mean i have have a good time to think about all three film . while i be a bit disappointed with part ii at first and the more i think about it and the good it seem . but with part iii and it be bad to begin with and then get bad the more i thought about it . the sad thing be that many people will stop with part i and but if they watch part ii a well and they will most likely go on to part iii . if you have the will and watch part i and ii and pretend like part iii never exist .