This is by far the most amazing film I have ever seen.
Set in the mid 1900's the film (adapted from the book) is loosely based around the real life events of the Corleone family and their struggle to protect their power and money from the other rival mafia families in New York.
It's quite full on, and very violent in the sense of plot and dialogue. I hadn't read the book so I was on the edge of my seat, I hardly believed the drastic measures that the families would take just to gather power and wealth meanwhile within their own families they were crumbling.
The story takes time carefully mapping out the events and the problems that would befall the Corleone family. Marlon Brando and Al Pacino created not a character but a person and brought the whole story alive. The flaws in the Don and Michael became Brando's and Pacino's it was so real that I was immersed.
This film is something you must see before you die. Putting it mildly. its just amazing.
10 out of 10 stars.
Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Starring: Al Pacino, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, James Caan etc...
Set in the mid 1900's the film (adapted from the book) is loosely based around the real life events of the Corleone family and their struggle to protect their power and money from the other rival mafia families in New York.
It's quite full on, and very violent in the sense of plot and dialogue. I hadn't read the book so I was on the edge of my seat, I hardly believed the drastic measures that the families would take just to gather power and wealth meanwhile within their own families they were crumbling.
The story takes time carefully mapping out the events and the problems that would befall the Corleone family. Marlon Brando and Al Pacino created not a character but a person and brought the whole story alive. The flaws in the Don and Michael became Brando's and Pacino's it was so real that I was immersed.
This film is something you must see before you die. Putting it mildly. its just amazing.
10 out of 10 stars.
Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Starring: Al Pacino, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, James Caan etc...