Anna

It’s absolutely insane Al Pacino didn’t win an Oscar for this movie!!!! This one is definitely more depressing than the first. There’s no hope left at the end of this movie. The first and last shot are perfect. First, we see the men coming to kiss Michael’s hand from the last movie, except with a closeup of the repulsion and resignation on his face, and the last: Michael’s flashback to the old days, and then the memory of Vito telling him to wave goodbye on the train flashing through his mind, and then the final look of empty despair as the camera slowly zooms in is just genius. It’s perfect.

Hitchcock really does a closed door mystery well, the humor at the end was a little out of place with the tone but overall the direction, cinematography, and acting was amazing. For some reason though, instead of just getting Jimmy Stewart he got Jimmy Stewart’s doppelgänger, and made Grace Kelly deal with his shi too