That Weingardner fellow tries to depict Tessio's execution in the very beginning of GF Returns. He brings in a 'new' character and give this big dramatic account and tries to spice it up with blood, brains etc....but to tell the truth it kind've leaves you cold. You get the feeling it wasn't really necessary but was thrown in to hook or somehow satisfy the reader who's supposedly been waiting 30 years to find out how this guy died.

Completely unimpressive.

By comparison, reading the second-by-second account of Sonny's death in The Godfather gave me chills even though I'd seen it depicted on film hundreds of times.

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