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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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.

  • Geoff Andrew, Time Out

    The acting is merely passable, several characters are given nothing to do, and Michael's paranoid self-pity lends the film an absurd morality: Coppola expects us to sympathise with the semblance of virtue.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Chris W


    After a break of more than 15 years, Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo reunited for this: the long overdue final chapter of the saga of the Corleone crime family. And yes, while I agree that this is the weakest of the trilogy, it's not a bad movie, and not nearly as awful as… More

  • Alexander D


    After two incontrovertibly classic crime films, THE GODFATHER PART III is a major disappointment, heavily plagued by the "threequel effect". I'm referring to the syndrome that left marks on films such BACK TO THE FUTURE: PART III, DIE HARD: WITH A VENGEANCE, BATMAN… More

  • Emil K


    Surprisingly weak film with an horrible acting by Sofia Coppola and Al Pacino who is over the top in almost every scene. This film is totally overblown in every possibly way and most definetly the weakest film by Coppola. Even his Jack is better than this.

  • Jim C


    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

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