All of you offer excellent theories of why Immobiliare was important to Michael, why Lucchesi and Gilday opposed him, etc. But all raise more questions. Why does Michael need further "cleansing" after handing out $100 million to the poor of Sicily, becoming a Papal Knight, and bailing out the Vatican Bank? What is Immobiliare, and why is Immobiliare, and not some other business, the key to "cleansing" Michael? Where did Altobello come from, and why is he trying to have Michael killed? Why did Gilday try to cheat Michael? Sure, Lucchesi's a villain. But what kind of villain is he? Why is he opposing Michael over Immobiliare? What's his role in it? It's these and other loose ends and careless plot threads that make GFII so feeble compared with the others, IMO.