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I saw it. It’s a dog. Actually, that’s an insult to dogs. Let’s say it was terrible.

I didn’t see it when it was first released to theaters. But it got a lot of negative reviews. I waited until it was released to cable tv. When it did air on cable, I watched it to see for myself what others were talking about.

I knew it was going to be as bad as they said when the very first 15 minutes of the movie, a whole 15 minutes, were nothing but flashback clips from the first 2 godfather movies.

The movie went on and on with bad scenes, bad script, etc. One scene involved a very unbelievable and typically overblown Hollywood version of a mob hit, the helicopter hit scene.

And then there was the awful nepotism casting of Coppola’s daughter in a lead role as Pacino’s daughter. Her acting was atrocious. Coppola defended his casting of her by pointing out that the originally cast Winona Ryder, a much better actress, had to drop out at the last minute because she got sick. The studio attempted to get him to cast some other female name celebrity, but in his eyes they were all too old. So, in desperation, he cast his own real life daughter.

What, in the entire acting business all over the world he couldn’t find a more capable actress of the same age? There had to be thousands who would have gladly dropped everything at the very last minute for the chance to be the female lead in a Coppola film.

Years later they re-cut and re-edited the movie for a re-release. I noticed how they cut out that first 15 minutes of flashback scenes. Which was an improvement, but too little.

What they should have done is remake the entire thing with a new script. Get rid of the helicopter hit scene, get rid of the Vatican bank story angle, don’t send Mike to Europe. Keep him in America. And recast someone else as Michael’s daughter.