Highest Rated Review by the Community
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Jul 30 '01
Pros: Brando, Pacino, Caan, Supporting Cast, Screenplay, Photography, Score
Cons: None
Summary: Family and ritual are very important to the Corleones. Staunchly Catholic, they believe in church weddings, baptisms, and funerals. Every important milestone in life is celebrated with religious rites – baptism, first communion, wedding, and...
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Jan 06 '12
Pros: Story, directing, cast, a perfect movie
Cons: None
Summary: Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando) is the head of New York’s most powerful Mafia family. Everything is just peachy keen in his life—he’s grooming his oldest son, Santino (James Caan) to take over the family business, his youngest son Michael ...
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Apr 18 '11
Pros: Excellent performances, screenplay is solid, direction, great watch
Cons: None
Summary: There are a lot of great examples of classic American cinema, but one gem that comes to mind almost immediately is Francis Ford Coppola's 1972 classic, The Godfather, which changed the entire genre of gangster film and also the entire field as we ...
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Apr 20 '07
Pros: This story is great entertainment.
Cons: This story turns good into the questionable.
Summary: The movie The Godfather (1972) has been practically deified as one of the best, movies of all time. It is on many top-ten best-movies-of-all-time lists. As art, it is undeniably a classic movie. As an influence on mass culture, however, it gives a ...
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Sep 17 '06
Pros: Superb performances from everyone involved and
a brilliant script spanning the full spectrum of emotions.
Cons: It set an impossible challenge to continue the saga in as glorious a fashion.
Summary: "I believe in America. America has made my fortune." With these words begins the greatest film in motion picture history and the stunning first act of a trilogy unrivalled for its unique take on organized crime in America even as its stalwart ...
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Mar 05 '05
Pros: Acting, Direction, Story, Feel, Look, Score
Cons: Some may complain about the length, can be hard to follow, requires repeated viewing
Summary: This movie ranked 3rd greatest film on AFI's list, landing between "Casablanca" and "Gone With the Wind" (I find it a better film than "Casablanca", but not quite as good as "Gone With the Wind"). An incredible cast, excellent directing, and an ...
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Feb 02 '05
Pros: Excellent Cinematography,
Astounding Use of Sound and Music, and
Brilliant Characters
Cons: Can be hard to hear at times, and
some subplots are not fully explained
Summary: The Godfather is truly the paradigm for the “gangster” genre. All mobster movies are inevitably compared to this 1972 epic, and most fail miserably in this regard. The Godfather’s influence can felt all over the mainstream media; the phrase ...
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Oct 26 '04
Pros: I believe that this is one of the top films of all time.
Cons: A third film was made as a followup.
Summary: "Where's Michael. We're Not Taking the Picture Without Michael" These words are the first said in this film by Godfather Don Corleone when in dialog with his family at his daughters wedding. I believe, in hindsight, after seeing the film that these ...
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Oct 03 '04
Pros: Legend of a film, classic to the gangster genre
Cons: Not my cup of tea
Summary: I am not a natural fan of gangster films. But being faced with an exam essay on the genre can to funny things to people. The Godfather embodies traits from the classic age of gangster flicks, from the time of Public Enemy and Little Caesar. A time ...
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Sep 15 '04
Pros: Everything! All of it!
Cons: Not ENTIRELY true to the book. But so what?
Summary: Dude! When my dad made me watch this with him (my repayment for schlepping him to Rocky Horror, which I shall also review), I was absolutely determined to despise it. And I honestly thought that it was possible; it sounded like the ultimate Guy Movie. A ...
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Jun 01 '04
Pros: Acting, Screenplay, Music, Direction..... aw hell, everything!
Cons: Perfect movies do not know of this word
Summary: How do you measure perfection? If you can capture 10, count em’ 10 academy award nominations, I would call it impressive. If you can create a movie that is more influential than the best-selling novel that it was based off of, than I would call it good. ...
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Jan 22 '04
Pros: Perfect cast. Superb acting. Great story.
Cons: None
Summary: The Godfather. Considered by most to be the greatest mob movie of all time, and considered by many to be the very best movie of all time. Ever since I saw The Godfather when I was 14, it has remained one of my favorite movies. Throughout this review, ...
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Nov 27 '03
Pros: One of the few great book-to-movie translations ever.
Cons: Both may be a little too graphic for some people.
Summary: This is my comparison of the book and movie, I originally done this essay as for my English composition class, but I figured it would make a good addition to epinions. I did not know whether to put it into Books or movies, but I put it into movies, ...
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Jul 25 '03
Pros: Acting, writing, cinematography and soundtrack.
Cons: It could be claimed that it romanticizes the lives of bad people.
Summary: Francis Ford Coppola's classic Gangster movie is a film that contains; what I consider to be, the greatest opening in cinematic history. It's not the kind of big action sequence that would open something like a Bond film, nor is it a traditional gangster ...
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May 04 '03
Pros: Everything!
Cons: You would have to be very, VERY critical to find fault in this film
Summary: BEWARE! This is a very long review of the film, The Godfather.
In order for a film to be good, it has to have a strong, emotion-involving lasting impact on us. Whether this is Terry Malloy's attempts to bring down the gang...
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Mar 31 '03
Pros: Shows the inside of a mob working and the details
Cons: Nothing which I can see
Summary: Don't let the title of the review steer you wrong this movie is simply amazing. It stands the test of time as being one of the best mob movies ever. No matter what people think of the violence that's how it was. The mob really is cold blooded and this...
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