I understand that the bar set by Coppola masterpiece is too high but at least some maffia movies were entertaining or at least interesting. It is not the case here.
The dialogues mix in bad English and worse Quebecian require subtitles to understand and are mostly a lot of words without much sense. The family drama is on bad soap opera level and acting (aside from a few character actors on brief roles) is unconvincing to say it mildly. Setting guy that kills 25 innocent kids removes their organs and use their bodies to smuggle heroin in Canada, as the main character; could be a good start for an horror movie; but in this kind of drama is unpleasant. Even worse trying to generate empathy for the monster; particularly when the actor is not charismatic nor scaring enough. The GODFATHER is played by Sergio Castellitto; a big Italian movie star that is completely miscast here. His parliaments part French, part Italian and part bad English are long and umberables. It is impossible to believe a person with such lack of charisma can be the BIG CAPO.
To make matter worse; the movie is almost two hours and a half long; but the story that could have been told in half the time and perhaps even less.
In brief; boring, not decent acting and uninteresting story; this movie harm the genre instead of adding anything new to it.
The dialogues mix in bad English and worse Quebecian require subtitles to understand and are mostly a lot of words without much sense. The family drama is on bad soap opera level and acting (aside from a few character actors on brief roles) is unconvincing to say it mildly. Setting guy that kills 25 innocent kids removes their organs and use their bodies to smuggle heroin in Canada, as the main character; could be a good start for an horror movie; but in this kind of drama is unpleasant. Even worse trying to generate empathy for the monster; particularly when the actor is not charismatic nor scaring enough. The GODFATHER is played by Sergio Castellitto; a big Italian movie star that is completely miscast here. His parliaments part French, part Italian and part bad English are long and umberables. It is impossible to believe a person with such lack of charisma can be the BIG CAPO.
To make matter worse; the movie is almost two hours and a half long; but the story that could have been told in half the time and perhaps even less.
In brief; boring, not decent acting and uninteresting story; this movie harm the genre instead of adding anything new to it.