Originally Posted By: pizzaboy
The bottom line is: Her part just wasn't big enough to have ruined anything. If you'd like a refund, ask Eli Wallach or George Hamilton.


I don't want to re-hash the Sofia debate, but I disagree that her part was too small for her to ruin the film. If you felt she was not believable as Michael's daughter, you wouldn't care that she was killed and the whole conclusion of the trilogy loses its pathos.

As I've posted before, in the theatre where I saw it, by the end of the film people were laughing out loud at her lines. That certainly ruined the mood.

"A man in my position cannot afford to be made to look ridiculous!"