Verdens bedste mafiafilm. Et sandt epos! En gribende fortaelling om familie, aere, status og overlevelse.

A lot of people probably mistake this movie for a gangster crime movie and they'd only be half right this also a sprawling soap opera. Infinitely watchable.It has it all. love, loss, family, violence and memorable catchy dialogue to boot.This movie i... (read more) A lot of people probably mistake this movie for a gangster crime movie and they'd only be half right this also a sprawling soap opera. Infinitely watchable.It has it all. love, loss, family, violence and memorable catchy dialogue to boot.This movie is steeped in atmosphere and detail. It moves along at a good pace so it won't over burden ADD victims of the younger generation! It holds up very well for repeated viewings!
This movie put Coppola on the map as force in Hollywood to be reckoned with, restored Brando's sagging career and made an over night star out of Al Pacino!Superb casting and performances all the way around!
Based on a best selling novel by author Maria Puzo, it was originally intended to be a standard gangster picture of "B" movie standards but Coppola read it and had a vision family and power. Somehow he managed to persuade the studio's to back him in where he wanted to take this story and the rest is history.Probably the best movie ever to come out of the seventies and way up in the top ten movies ever made. This is the Gone With Wind of Gangster movies!

I am in great shame. I haven't watched the godfather. Only parts of it. But I'm as sure that god doesn't exists, that it is one of the greatest films EVER!

Best film ever made beside The Godfather Part II. It has everything you could ask for in a film and if it was 2 hours longer you wouldn't complain. As John says, "class."

Too long. Give me some adderall and I may be able to sit through it.

Ebert Meets the Wachowskis