Like anyone else, I don't put GFIII in the same league as GFI&II, and I admit to scanning over the scenes of the opera on a few viewings (I love opera, and while Cavelleria Rusticana is beautiful, it's not one of the best out there) But Don T- I'm surprised that you scan over the scenes in Vincent's apartment with Grace- in a movie with so few characters that we haven't met before, character development was not a large concern- unfortunately, this extended to the characters that needed it. The Vinnie's apartment sequence was probably the best piece of character devlopment in the movie- it shows that Vinnie, like his Father, is a ladies' man and can be rash and impulsive, but like Michael, he's a thinker- in the time it took to shoot both assassins, he already had a story to tell the police that got him off the hook for what amounted to cold-blooded murder. And perhaps most important, you see that even with these similarities, he's his own man- he has no qualms about using Grace as bait- "Go get me a glass of water."

Sammy The Fish