The Godfather Reviews and Ratings


  • hdfergie
    November 23, 2009
    hdfergie
    My theatre teacher has this poster in her room
  • Yelverton
    November 20, 2009
    Yelverton
    One of the greatest movies of all time.
  • ythelastman89
    November 20, 2009
    ythelastman89
    Perfection in every way. It is a visually captivating film with a grand story to accompany it. Marlon Brando gave a flawless performance as Don Corleone, resulting in a sympathetic crime lord. Al Pacino gave just as strong of a performance, giving you a clear sense of downfall fr...( read more)om a seemingly moralistic character into a ruthless businessman. The story covers everything from family values to revenge. It is perhaps the most epic narrative in cinema.
  • skywalker71
    November 19, 2009
    skywalker71
    i like this movie first for the my faivorat actor al patcino and the strongest of the film
  • reetzbrian
    November 18, 2009
    reetzbrian
    the original gangster flick
  • mauilvr98003
    November 16, 2009
    mauilvr98003
    Classic! A must have for anyones movie collection.
  • mana77075
    November 15, 2009
    mana77075
    Classic!!! need I say more
  • familyguy1956
    November 15, 2009
    familyguy1956
    my wife thought this movie was awfull
  • lyderworldz
    November 14, 2009
    lyderworldz
    no further comment...
  • monjejay
    November 13, 2009
    monjejay
    all movies shud be like this
  • dishanlonewolf
    November 8, 2009
    dishanlonewolf
    This is one offer I couldn't refuse.
  • sparks235
    November 7, 2009
    sparks235
    It was alright, but I'm not into gang movies!
  • FanboyMatt
    November 6, 2009
    FanboyMatt
    It is a long film with the power to keep you interested. Marlon Brando gave the performance of his life as too did the up and coming Al Pacino, marking the beginning of a great career. The film is one of the greatest ever made but it is not THE greatest mob film ever. I consider ...( read more)this more iconic that a great film, not taking anything away from the fact that it is still really good.
  • jonathanswinter
    November 5, 2009
    jonathanswinter
    The best gangster movie ever
  • etcrevia
    November 4, 2009
    etcrevia
    "I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse". This quote from "The Godfather" himself sets up this excellent crime drama.
  • leftymccool
    November 4, 2009
    leftymccool
    Brilliant movie, only reason it's not 5 stars is I slightly enjoy Godfather II more
  • minhvanl
    November 4, 2009
    minhvanl
    this is a super excellent movie to watch.better own it.
  • cutiehoney808
    November 3, 2009
    cutiehoney808
    the best Godfather series
  • iyo
    November 3, 2009
    iyo
    best gangster movie ever!!
  • morosed
    November 1, 2009
    morosed
    still need to see this and I will! I did :)
  • mityar1815
    October 30, 2009
    mityar1815
    Q LES PUEDO DECIR DE ESTE peliculón, genial, EXCELENTE, LAS PALABRAS SE ME ATORAN EN MI BOCA ... WWUUAAAOOOOO ¡¡¡¡¡
  • liahona09
    October 29, 2009
    liahona09
    wow me encanta Al pacino!! solo en esta pelicula! jaja
  • lvinprasad05
    October 29, 2009
    lvinprasad05
    wat a brilliant mafia movie..on the whole an excellent movie..
  • karishmahyder
    October 27, 2009
    karishmahyder
    This is good...and everyone knows it
  • TEAMHAMBY
    October 26, 2009
    TEAMHAMBY
    i will make u an offer you can't fefuse.
  • debbicovington
    October 26, 2009
    debbicovington
    One of the classics.
  • alpiey
    October 25, 2009
    alpiey
    effing brilliant trilogy, i loved them. benissimo
  • scottwot2002
    October 24, 2009
    scottwot2002
    An undisputed classic. What more can i say.
  • mhddavid
    October 23, 2009
    mhddavid
    brando rocks one of the best ever
  • ElCochran90
    October 23, 2009
    ElCochran90
    "I'm gonna make him an offer he won't refuse."

    THE GODFATHER (1972)


    Director: Francis Ford Coppola
    Country: United States of America
    Genre: Crime / Drama / Thriller
    Length: 175 minutes

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    Conglomerating the charm that Italian classics had, the brilliance of crime films of the Golden Age of movies and one of the most ambitious directions any auteur could ever apply in the entire history of the motion picture, the filmic treatment that Mario Puzo's original novel was subject to back in the marvelous film year of 1972 placed The Godfather in one of the most superior categories of cinema ever conceived by mankind. Following the unfortunate American tradition of not giving the full recognition that outstanding geniuses deserve in their particular era, the capacity of Francis Ford Coppola of portraying a powerful crime manifesto from a partially American style came slightly unnoticed. However, this capacity would be finally recognized until the release of the highly competitive sequel: The Godfather: Part II (1974). The Godfather is quite possibly the best American film ever made, ranking along the superiority of Orson Welles' Citizen Kane (1941), a task that already constitutes a nearly unsurpassable and considerably expert achievement. It is a film released at the exact right time that literally changed, perhaps permanently, the perspective that the audiences of the 70's, a decade that was barely starting regarding cinema, had towards the art of filmmaking. The film has changed lives and has created fans around the world, transforming Francis Ford Coppola into one of the best directors in America that completely caused a sudden filmic boom, including Steven Spielberg (The Sugarland Express [1974], Jaws [1975]), George Lucas (American Graffiti [1973], Star Wars [1977]) and Martin Scorsese (Mean Streets [1973], Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore [1974]), an Italian director. It has also redefined the crime genre once more, just like Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront (1954) and Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde (1967) did during their respective decades, especially regarding the nowadays prolific gangster branch.

    The Godfather is the first part of a crime trilogy, focusing on the aging don Vito Corleone and his Corleone Mafia Family that represents a very big part of the organized crime within the city of New York. The film opens with the overseeing of his daughter's wedding and introduces Michael Corleone, his beloved son who has recently returned from the Second World War and who does not have the slightest interest in belonging to his father's business. A rival of Corleone named Virgil Sollozzo seeks Vito Corleone and asks him for protection while offering a payment of drug money; however, the morality of Vito does not allow him to accept the payment, an event that will eventually release a sequence of violence, death, destruction and betrayal on the Corleone family and a brutal war between different parts of the organized crime. The film received 11 Academy Award nominations for Best Costume Design, Best Film Editing, Best Music, Original Dramatic Score, Best Sound, Best Director, three nominations for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Best Actor in a Leading Role, Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium and Best Picture, winning only the last three Oscars and blasphemously losing most of the rest against the popular musical Cabaret (1972), directed by Bob Fosse, including the award for Best Director.

    Francis Ford Coppola's particular approach towards the organized crime inevitably results in a cataclysmic explosion of unparalleled cinematographic brilliance. Every single talented element has been put together into a 3-hour timeless crime American masterpiece. The musical score composed by master Nino Rota has become a cinema icon, being endless times referenced throughout the upcoming decades and creating that very peculiar nostalgic and memorable feeling that makes the viewer to instantly remember the specific movie, just like Psycho (1960), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), The Exorcist (1973), Jaws (1975) and Star Wars (1977) managed to do, for mentioning famous examples of American filmmaking. Basically, every performance is extraordinary, forming fully developed, identifiable and even empathetic characters in the process. Marlon Brando, on the other hand, managed to portray one of the most powerful, multiphacetic and memorable film characters ever brought to the big screen, turning the appearance of a mad bulldog into a cold-blooded, fearless and loyal head of a mafia family. These talents are deliciously enlightened by a remarkable cinematography of Gordon Willis, atmospherically shooting the disciplined functioning of the underworld and capturing both the colonial beauties of the streets of Italy and a breathtaking old-New York art direction. The Seventh Art has been blessed.

    The Godfather is, ultimately, a film rich in character. It plays homage of how a full organism is the consequent result of the sum of its parts. The film has different facets, from brutally portraying the world from the perspective that is usually hidden from the conventional members of a common, standard and stereotypical society to dramatically showing components that seem to resemble a Greek tragedy. Coppola reunited each and every one of the elements that could fully incarnate the interior structure of an operational mafia group, such as crime, betrayal, sex, violence, loyalty towards the family, competition, romance, marriage and passion, perhaps with the brilliant purpose of depicting a criminal portion of society that forcedly tries to fit in through the following of moral values and standards but escaping from the authorities when these standards are intentionally violated. The surprisingly graphic and merciless violence is compensated with the naturally irradiated beauty throughout, like witnessing an elegant and well-decorated orgy full of sin, which means that the story is shown from different points of view, not necessarily creating characters that could be interpreted as smarter and superior, but people who slowly climbed to the top of the world through the easiest and most incorrect path while possessing a distorted view towards the religion they possess.

    This constant change of elements and perspectives would inevitably become an influential landmark for several future filmmakers, but whereas Martin Scorsese would add a strong dose of dark humor and a hyperactive pace, a fact that would influence the style of Quentin Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs [1992], Pulp Fiction [1994]), Coppola orchestrated an opera of distinct emotions and striking vibes. He also managed to smarty attract audiences with a famous cast, from an eternal legend (Marlon Brando) to talented ones (Al Pacino). Characters are shown from their most human sides. Vito Corleone's most relevant priorities are loyalty towards the family and the protection of the youth since it represents the future of a successful America. This argument is contradictory in its most literal sense, but it served the purpose of being a wonderfully stylish psychological complement. Vito Corleone is a young man who is unwillingly included into his own fate, experiencing a brutal change of personality while witnessing the cruelness of the world. The rest of the characters are just puppets who mindlessly feel that their obvious obligation is to obey the commands of their own Fuhrer. Their respective backgrounds remain mostly unclear, a fact that adds too much mysteriousness to the possible motives of their actions. Nevertheless, this would be one of the principal tasks held by the sequel: to reveal pasts and to bring the demons to their doom.

    Criminals have disguised themselves as common citizens. A film has disguised itself as a true work of art. The Godfather is much more than a merely influential and revolutionary gangster testament; it is one of the best films ever made. An extraordinarily developed screenplay by one of the most passionate and stylish crime novellas ever written allowed a filmic plot to explosively unravel in front of the possibly unprepared audience. It is an epic of criminal proportions and a direct attack to the senses and cathartic emotions that may irremediably ensue. Nowadays, Coppola has got the credit that we, as faithful fans, had since the beginning, but that does not even seem to be enough. It is a towering achievement which vision will be hardly top in the future generations to come.

    100/100
  • chelique1
    October 22, 2009
    chelique1
    Simplemente... Extraordinaria!
  • TIEGUY
    October 22, 2009
    TIEGUY
    Good, but I don't see how it is as great as everyone seems to think it is.
  • Zento
    October 21, 2009
    Zento
    The Godfather is an absorbing and riveting saga.The story is about the Corleone Mafioso family. When they refuse to join the drug business with another family, the Don Corleone is nearly killed in an assassination attempt. This creates a vendetta. After careful planning, the yo...( read more)ungest son volunteers to kill those responsible. As a result, he is called to be the new Don or Godfather. But as he makes business decisions for the family, he is faced with deceit and betrayal from those who intend to take over the Corleone interests. The plot is intriguing in many ways. There is often a feeling of distrust. This is because the characters lie to each other with straight faces. The film is also fascinating in how it presents the Corleone family. They love unconditionally but punish without remorse. In one scene, there is a big and happy wedding in their mansion. They are celebrating the marrriage of the Don's eldest daughter. But later in the film, the eldest son is beating her husband to a pulp. In another warm hearted scene, the Don is playing with his grandson in a plantation. It shows him as a man of love and affection. But early in the story, he was responsible for ordering the decapitation of a film producer's horse because he refused the Dons offer. The film has top performances. The stellar cast includes Robert Duval, Al Pacino, and James Caan. But Marlon Brando is memorable as the husky voiced Godfather.The movie is directed by Francis Ford Coppola and is based on a book by Mario Puzo. And at times it feels like a Shakespearean tragedy.
  • XSHAMLANX
    October 21, 2009
    XSHAMLANX
    never gets old... the best movie of all time and in american history...
    i watched it more than 20 times
  • edwardcormbi1
    October 20, 2009
    edwardcormbi1
    i love it i watched it more than 10times
  • amiravannen
    October 19, 2009
    amiravannen
    I really need to watch this all the way through for once.
  • romeobintangtimur
    October 18, 2009
    romeobintangtimur
    its classic mob movie that ever made, and its very pure mafia live
  • Kayleethuggg
    October 18, 2009
    Kayleethuggg
    this is a movie that just never gets old(:
    you all no you have the DVD[;
  • chloethecutecree
    October 17, 2009
    chloethecutecree
    Like It Says..EPIC!
    If You Haven't Seen It..Its A Must!
  • daddydog004
    October 15, 2009
    daddydog004
    One of the greatest movies of all time
  • mephistofelin
    October 14, 2009
    mephistofelin
    Je suis carrément accro. Tellement que j'écoute la triolgie au moins 1 fois par année, si ce n'est pas deux!
  • rheaycronos
    October 12, 2009
    rheaycronos
    marlon brando es el mejor
  • xtiandurden
    October 12, 2009
    xtiandurden
    The Greatest Film. The best film by Coppola. The best crime film. The best film adapted from a novel. The Godfather is entertaining. You have great acting, characters with different personalities and charisma of their own: Sonny, Tom, Vito, and of course Michael. You have one gre...( read more)at casting with amazing performances and sincerely, every minute of Godfather is worth to be called a classic. Some say it's boring and disappointing, I say they didn't get the movie when they watch it, but the more they watched the film, the more they went into the plot, the characters, the story, the whole atmosphere of the movie, and they finally understood the truth about The Godfather.
  • floressrrn40
    October 11, 2009
    floressrrn40
    All the movies are great.
  • caperusitarouge
    October 10, 2009
    caperusitarouge
    excellent, the best movie i have ever seen
  • kkkcocaine09
    October 10, 2009
    kkkcocaine09
    filmult ce mai depret despre mafie
  • nanyelimg
    October 9, 2009
    nanyelimg
    de esta que mas se puede decir, un clasico que si no has visto ( junto con la 2 y3), que haces en Flixter!!!!
  • docx49er
    October 6, 2009
    docx49er
    Hello, it's the Godfather!!

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