Review of The Godfather Part II (1974) by Brendan C — 27 Mar 2013

The Godfather part 2 is the best in the series because it tells two stories. It tells the story of Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) finding out who the traitor in his family is, and it shows how Veto Corleone (Robert De Niro) grew up and how he became Don Corleone. If it didn't tell two stories it would be a close 2nd to the first one, but it does tell two stories so it is my favorite. This film had it down the right way to do a prequel. A straight prequel is never good. You have to make it part sequel, and part prequel. It needs to be a sequel with lots of flashbacks. The prequel part of the film was in the book, but the sequel part was not. I think the reason why the sequel story was really good, but not as good as the first one is because Mario Puzo had to make it from scratch. It also doesn't have as much suspense as the first story does. This film is a lot more dark then the first. Because it shows the effects that breaking bad has had on Michael Corleone.

It has been seven years since the events of the first one. It starts off with a party in Lake Tahoe Nevada. Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) has a series of meetings. One of them is with Senator Pat Geary. Geary just insults him, which shows how weak Geary is, and Michael doesn't offer him anything. A meeting with his depressed, and troubled sister Connie Corleone (Talia Shire) shows that he has lost control of the family. His father had perfect control over the family and the business, but Michael can only really control his business. That is the only way where he is as good as his father. This film shows what a much more flawed, and cold person he is then his father. His father was feared, and loved, but Michael is only feared.

An assassination gets attempted in his life when he is at home, and he knows that there is a traitor in the family. The story becomes how he figures out who the traitor in the family is, and what he will do with him when he figures it out.

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The traitor in his family is his brother Fredo (John Cazale). He learns that because.

He told him that he never met Johnny Ola, and then later he says that he knows him. Michael approaches him in the middle of the new years party, gives him the kiss of death and tells him "I know it was you Fredo. You broke my heart." At the end of the movie he kills him because he cannot have any traitors n the family. Genghis Khan the leader of the Mongolian empire killed his brother because he betrayed him. I feel like they got the idea from that part of history.

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The prequel part had Robert De Niro playing the younger Veto Corleone. He was first named Veto Andolini, but he came from Corleone, Sicily. He changed his last name to the name of his town after his mother was murdered in front of him. He then went to America and grew up and raised a family there. He lived in a neighborhood where Don Fanucci ruled, and he eventually killed him because he was taking money from people. In the book it says that his son Santino saw him kill the Don. Eventually Veto becomes more powerful and acquires the wine business. He does favors for people like you saw him do in the first movie. The prequel section is my favorite part in the whole trilogy.

---- Compare to the first one-----.

They both start with a party and end with him taking out his enemies. And they both end with him waiting for one of his parents to die before he kills a member of the family that hurt the family. They both had a big threat to the family, and they were both assassination attempts that failed. They both have a few similarities, but they are very different.

This was an unbelievable movie that was just as good as the first if not better, but probably just as good. It was very well acted, and the only thing that was missed was Marlon Brando. Marlon Brando brought a happiness to the first one, that Al pacino didn't bring. Al Pacino's character is a great one, but he makes the film much darker. This was the darkest of the Godfather films, and it was the heaviest in terms of emotions at the end. The first one had a little bit more suspense, and it had more action, but this one was more intense at the end. It was a perfect movie.