Summer of Movies #1: The Godfather

This is it people, the last movie. Its been a long, hard, journey turned into a short, tedious, trip. I had a lot of fun, and found love for many new films. But today's film is the one everyone talks about, the one you know and love. If you've yet to guess it by now, than I guess you didn't read the title. This is my final Summer review of...

PLOT

In 1940-50's New York City, their are five mafia families, the most influential of the five is the Corleone family, run by Vito Corleone. But the family soon starts to decline as they struggle to find control.

PROS

Marlion Brando as Vito Corleone is simply breathtaking. I had never seen Brando perform on film before this point, and I was simply blown away.

Al Pacino as Micheal is great, but shocking considering what he is today. He plays the character so shy and unsuspecting, unlike everything else he did after this film.

The film is very violent, even though it's fairly tame. What I mean is that the movie is very quiet and conversation based, so whenever it gets violent, it takes you by surprise and shocks you, even though what it shows could be put in a PG-13 movie today.

The writing and script is amazing. It's seems realistic and has so many great lines.

CONS

I feel like there is a lot of left out information. I know that Part 2 is a prequel, so maybe if I watch that, things will make sense, but that movie is 4 hours and 30 min... Yeah, screw that.

CONCLUSION

Let me be honest for a second. I was disappointing by this film. Don't get me wrong, I still loved it and thought it was great, but I just wasn't blown away. I think that my expectations were so high that no matter what I got, it wouldn't live up to them. This is a great film, defiantly worth checking out, just don't get your hopes up too high.

RATING

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