7.5 | / 10 |
Users | 3.6 | |
Reviewer | 4.0 | |
Overall | 3.6 |
Michael Corleone, now in his 60s, seeks to free his family from crime and find a suitable successor to his empire. That successor could be fiery Vincent, but he may also be the spark that turn's Michael's hope of business legitimacy into an inferno of mob violence. This special director's cut includes a new beginning and ending, as well as changes to scenes, shots, and music cues. The resulting project reflects author Mario Puzo and director Francis Ford Coppola's original intentions for the film.
Starring: Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire, Andy Garcia, Eli WallachDrama | 100% |
Crime | 64% |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.85:1
English: Dolby TrueHD 5.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
French: Dolby Digital 5.1 (640 kbps)
Spanish: Dolby Digital 5.1 (640 kbps)
Spanish: Dolby Digital 5.1 (640 kbps)
German: Dolby Digital 5.1 (640 kbps)
Italian: Dolby Digital 5.1 (640 kbps)
Japanese: Dolby Digital 5.1
Spanish=Spain and Latin American
English, English SDH, French, French SDH, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, Arabic, Cantonese, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hindi, Korean, Mandarin (Simplified), Mandarin (Traditional), Norwegian, Romanian, Swedish
Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD)
Digital copy
Slipcover in original pressing
Region free
Movie | 4.5 | |
Video | 5.0 | |
Audio | 5.0 | |
Extras | 0.5 | |
Overall | 4.0 |
The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone arrives in theaters and at home only weeks away from the 30th anniversary of its original theatrical debut on Christmas day 1990. Newly edited and returning the original title Director Francis Ford Coppola and Author Mario Puzo first envisioned for the film, Coda represents a more focused and complete vision for the film. Coppola says that "Coda" better defines the film's purpose as an “epilogue, a summing up” of the first two films in the series. This new edit rearranges the film with a new beginning pulled from a scene that was, in the 1990 film, placed later in the story. There's a new ending, too, and a number of "repositioned" scenes in the middle. Coppola says that with Coda the story has been “given new life” that yields a “new experience.” It's a superior edit to be sure, though still a film that suffers from a few shortcomings. Nevertheless, it's now a more approachable film and more fluidly connected to and in-line with The Godfather and The Godfather Part II.
The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone makes its Blu-ray debut with an extraordinary 1080p transfer presented in the 1.85:1
aspect ratio. The picture is gorgeously filmic, retaining a natural, pleasant grain structure which is ever-present and exquisitely pure. Clarity is
exceptional and fine details are intimately revealing, with hair and clothes and the plush environments delivering unparalleled accuracy. The image is
intoxicatingly filmic, a picture-perfect representation of both the source material and the Blu-ray format's peak capabilities. Colors are likewise stout
and perfectly balanced. The
image paints each scene with exacting contrast and tonal accuracy, whether the warmth in Michael's office or the urban tones on city streets. It's the
former where the transfer finds some of its best moments in a scene when Michael works to sort out the differences between Vincent and Joey
relatively early in
the film, the scene ultimately ending with the former taking a bite out of the latter. Here, the rich, deep warm reds blend perfectly with exacting
blacks and shadow detail, the
latter offering just enough depth to sometimes shade eyes and perhaps mask intentions. It's one of the best looking scenes in the film and some of
Cinematographer Gordon Willis' best work in the movie. Colors throughout are faithful, with skin tones in particular full of health and
vitality. The image varies greatly from the Part III presentation found in theprevious releases. It's significantly sharper, more attuned to its filmic
roots, and color timing has been adjusted to make both subtle and bold alterations, giving the picture a more natural tonal flow. This one stands well
ahead of the previous effort, which pales (literally and figuratively) in comparison.
There will likely be a Godfather UHD release in the future which will hopefully include both The Godfather Part III as well as
Coda. Until then, this
is a wonderful Blu-ray presentation that pushes the format to its limits. It's sublime and not to be missed.
The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone features a Dolby TrueHD 5.1 lossless soundtrack. The presentation proves both as powerful and subtle as necessary, blending its elements and delivering faultless audio in every scene. The film now opens with Michael meeting with the archbishop on the subject of bailout money; the dialogue cavernously reverberates through the room. The scene is followed by a festive, springy party with music and chatter amiably filling the stage. The two are exercises in the track's diversity, with reach in both scenes wide and immersion precise, even as they're two entirely unique audio scenarios. Likewise, the gunship attack partway through the film offers dense spinning rotors and heavy gunfire that yields prominent depth to impacts, shattering glass, and other sounds of chaos with clarity, expert balance, and prioritization within the chaotic din, as well as a terrifying feeling for immersion. Music is rich and detailed as the track explores every note of Carmine Coppola's score. Light ambient effects blend in well, too, and the subwoofer is utilized to balanced and detailed effect. Dialogue is clear and precise, whether tightly married to the center during hushed whispers or in those aforementioned examples of reverb.
The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone contains no supplements beyond an optional introduction to the new edit with Francis Ford Coppola (1080p, 1:31). This release ships with both a digital copy code and a non-embossed slipcover.
The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone stands not only a new cut of the third installment in the Godfather saga but also as the new definitive version of the film. The flow is smoother, the narrative is tighter, and the blend into and with the other films is superior. Paramount's brand new Blu-ray is featureless beyond a director intro but the 1080p picture quality is leaps-and-bounds better than the old release. The 5.1 lossless soundtrack is quite good, too. This release earns my highest recommendation.
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