9 Movie Sequels That Made You Hate Characters You Once Loved

There are two sides to Al Pacino as an actor. There's the quieter, more complex, Pacino of films like The Godfather and its sequel, and there's the ranting, raving, pretty much playing himself Pacino of films like The Godfather Part III.

It's the clash of these two acting styles, the first of which has not been seen in a Pacino film for decades, that creates such an obvious disconnect between the first two Godfather films and the third - Michael Corleone seems like a completely different person, almost as if Pacino had forgotten how to play the character.

The original duology created an intense portrait of an immensely flawed but immensely interesting man, after all; a real person dealing with his own tragic demise. By the time we get to Part III, though, all the nuance of the character has dissipated - Pacino plays himself, and so Michael the man becomes Michael the caricature. There's little cohesion between the two versions.

Whereas before it was easy to sympathise with Michael, even as he became progressively less worthy of such an emotion, you hate the Michael Corleone of The Godfather Part III right off the bat; he's a loud mouth, a feral madman with a brashness and a mean temper - it doesn't match up and it's hard to buy into.

One could argue that Francis Ford Coppola intended for audiences to receive Michael in this way, but I'm not sure; it's more likely that Pacino, no longer able to act with subtlety, accidentally doomed his greatest ever character to parody.

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