Originally posted by juventus:
I think it was (strictly) bussines. There was no other way he could kill Sollozzo. And he believed that SOllozzo would kill his dad, unless Mikey killed Sollozzo first of course.
Yeah well thats making it personal.
Micheal killed Solozzo because Solozzo tried to kill his dad-not the don of the Corleone family but his dad. It wasn't strictly business. If it was strictly business, then Micheal would not have killed Solozzo seeing how he was not in the business at the time!