The Godfather, Part III

The Godfather, Part III (1990)

  • 68% of critics liked it
    (56 reviews)

  • 79% of users liked it
    (273,375 ratings)

After a break of more than 15 years, director Francis Ford Coppola and writer Mario Puzo returned to the well for this third and final story of the fictional Corleone crime family. Two decades have passed, and crime kingpin Michael Corleone (Al Pacino), now divorced from his wife Kay (Diane Keaton),… More

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R, 2 hr. 50 min.
Directed By
Francis Ford Coppola
Genres
Drama, Action & Adventure
In Theaters
Dec 25, 1990 Wide
On DVD
May 24, 2005
Paramount Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine

    The film is a slow fuse with a big bang -- one that echoes through every family whose own tragedy is an aching for things past and loved ones lost.

  • Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly

    The movie, a heady thicket of political intrigue and double crosses, is slower, talkier, and more prosaic than the first two films, and its narrative seams sometimes show. And yet it's more than the sum of its mazelike convolutions.

  • Variety Staff, Variety

    The Godfather Part III matches its predecessors in narrative intensity, epic scope, socio-political analysis, physical beauty and deep feeling for its characters and milieu.

  • Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

    Represents a certain moral improvement over its predecessors by refusing to celebrate and condemn violence and duplicity in the same breath, or at least to the same degree.

  • Janet Maslin, New York Times

    Most film sequels are strictly optional. The Godfather Part III is inevitable, and as such it's irresistible.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Brad W


    The Godfather Part 3 is the final and the weakest in the Godfather trilogy, but I am not saying it was not bad at all, in fact it was a beautiful conclusion and I loved it. The story now follows Michael as an old man, and he must deal with his life that is soon coming to an end. The… More

  • Zach B


    This is it: The end of the greatest film trilogy of all time and one that has yet to be beaten. Every moment of the previous films led up to this film and, for the most part, it does not disappoint. Now, this film has something of a reputation of being underrated and being a terrible… More

  • Eric A


    A descent movie, but this is minor league compared to the first two.

  • Kristijonas F


    An inferior and under-rated, albeit sufficient conclusion to the greatest gangster-crime trilogy of all time. It mars the source-material and impact of the first two films, and I gotta say - It should have been named "The Death of Michael Corleone" like Coppola and Puzo… More

  • Carlos M


    Part three of the grand trilogy of Cinema, this deeply moving third act concludes the saga of the Corleones in a marvellous, heartbreaking note. Quite underrated, this film is just as wonderful as the two other parts, and the unforgettable final sequence brings the whole trilogy to a… More

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