I like 3. Yeah the incest plot is creepy and weird, plus of course featuring the director’s daughter makes it creepier, and she can’t act. Would have liked Duval but he wanted too much. What I really enjoy though is watching Garcia’s character change from Sonny’s kid (all hot emotions) to Micheal’s kid (all cold calculations), while watching Micheal finally pay the price for rotten bastard he is. That’s really good stuff. And all the call back, not just the simultaneous hits, but Zasso getting hit during the same festival Vito killed that boss and got on his path, and tons and tons more. If you pay attention to the callbacks you can actually “see” the next trilogy, 3 is telling you it’s just going to keep going like this, new bosses, new cars, same actions, same backdrops.
The daughter has a classic Italian look, but I agree no acting chops. It was creepy, but at least they had Michael and the family telling him to knock it off. And the ending did the typical Hollywood payback.
I like your examples.