But the sour word of mouth quickly turned toxic - with the press particularly savaging Sofia Coppola’s stilted performance as doomed daughter Mary Corleone - and over the years the film has become something of a punchline, a go-to shorthand reference for sequels that never should have been made.Īlways a tinkerer, the 81-year-old Coppola last year released “Apocalypse Now: Final Cut,” which splits the difference between the phantasmagoric perfection of the 1979 original and his bloated, unnecessarily talky 2001 “Apocalypse Now Redux,” as well as “The Cotton Club: Encore,” which fleshed out and clarified important aspects of his notorious 1984 bomb.
The film received, for the most part, respectful reviews and seven Oscar nominations that seemed more out of habit than actual enthusiasm. Millions of holiday dinners across America suffered a mass exodus of dads, uncles and boy cousins rushing through our meals to catch an early evening show, and I distinctly remember how afterward none of us really wanted to admit we hadn’t liked it very much.
One of the most anticipated films of all time, Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Godfather Part III” arrived 30 Christmases ago like a lump of coal in the stockings of disappointed audiences.
A still from "The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone." (Courtesy Paramount Pictures) This article is more than 1 year old.
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