In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.
The stunning text of The Godfather is replaced in Part II with prologues, epilogues, footnotes, and good intentions.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
23 Oct 2004
fresh:
The performances, Gordon Willis' memorably gloomy camerawork, the stately pace and the sheer scale of the story's sweep render everything engrossing and so, well, plausible that our ideas of organised crime in America will forever be marked by this movie.
– Geoff Andrew,
Time Out,
24 Jun 2006
fresh:
Francis Ford Coppola pulls it off in grand style.
– Don Druker,
Chicago Reader,
13 Dec 2006
fresh:
The Paramount release has everything going for it.
– A.D. Murphy,
Variety,
19 Feb 2008
fresh:
One of the most ambitious and brilliantly executed American films, a landmark work from one of Hollywood's top cinema eras.