EDIT: seen i already replied to this thread.
Re-watched again recently, and its still Pacino that lets the movie down for me. Very little essence of Michael Corleone in the movie.
Agreed. I think Pacino was upset about them not paying Duvall enough, so maybe he phoned it in on purpose.
Somewhere in the late 80s to early 90s Pacino just started playing versions of the same character. Not Tony Montana, but variants on Carlito Brigante. The bravado, the mannerisms, just about everything Pacino has done in the last twenty five years, with a very few exceptions, has just been shades of Carlito. When I watch GFIII, I feel like I'm watching the first iteration of Carlito.
Surely there must have been a way for Pacino to play a tired, worn out Michael Corleone that didn't involve invoking an alien character that we had never seen before.
