I finally watched Coda and...I enjoyed it a lot.

I haven't seen the original cut in a while so I can't speak to every subtle change. But it was definitely easier to follow the Vatican storyline and it moved at a better pace.

To me, the biggest problem with GFIII all along was that Sofia's performance was so terrible that it was hard to buy into that pivotal character. That didn't change. And the awful gnocchi scene remains.

SPOILER

I was lukewarm about the ending. The title slide idea seemed kind of hokey and overwrought to me. FFC didn't abide by that old saying about good screenwriting - "Show me, don't tell me."

And, after all the time he spent (unsuccessfully) trying to get GFIII titled "The Death of Michael Corleone" I found it odd that he didn't die.