romanosdaniel

Really I am beginning to despair of the supposed "romance" genre today.

In the past, the standard format for this sort of movie was to have someone you really liked but with a few (sometimes serious) quirks and issues flower into a great person and find their husband or wife Now it seems like everyone in such movies plays a horrible person and the main protagonist remains horrible till the end with no discernable time spent growing or improving or undertaking anything like the standard hero's or heroine's journey.

Now perhaps the first time such a thing transpires people will find it interesting - I personally don't think so because it invalidates the entire point of a romcom but each to themselves. However at this point this is the standard formula for every single one of the genre In addition, for some unknown reason these movies now pretend that everyone is a member of the alphabet community which again isn't very interesting as it has been done to death.

At this point it would be far more interesting to have a movie where a bible believing Christian woman falls for a bible believing Christian man and they don't cheat on eachother despite temptation and live happily ever after.

This movie is worth 1 star but I did like the grandmother (who was already dead - not a spoiler as it is referred to in the first minute) so it gets 2 stars.

In order to appreciate this movie you need to be first and foremost a fan of the original series. But secondly you must understand that this is not just the conclusion to the trilogy.

Whilst the first two movies were very action motivated, the action in this particular movie plays second fiddle to the feel of the thing.

This movie is better than the entire godfather trilogy because it has the pathos of that movie series along with a character that is as much of a hero as it is possible to be in a non idealized world.

The acting by Washington is top notch as always, but it is the cinematics of this movie and the production values that make it a masterpiece as well as the story and direction.

If you have not been to that part of Italy, you may not quite appreciate just how moving the cinematics were. And at the same time there is this constant tension that is kept alive by the stop start nature of the movie. The movie is like a great river. Long relatively slow graceful curves, suddenly interrupted by slivers of perfectly executed action that would not be out of place in the very greatest movies of that genre. Yet the action is fleeting, and shifts again into poignant scenes.

In short, this may be the first mainstream movie of this decade that I could call a proper work of art.