The buzz so far hasn't been too good...

You can put lipstick on a pig but at the end of the day, it's still a pig.

The reviews I've thread say it's not much different from the original cut, but the new scenes and tighter editing make it a somewhat better version.

I haven't watched it yet, but the comments that the editing is tighter (outside of the final edit at the film's end) has me wondering if he actually fixed that awkward scene at his NYC estate after the attempted assassination and killing of the other mafia dons. When he collapses into a diabetic seizure he starts screaming and hallucinating but there's this weird quick edit when it moves 3 to 5 seconds forward and we see Michael, Vincent, and Connie move suddenly due to the quick edit. This always bothered me from a viewing perspective and I always wondered if the original scene footage had damaged film therefore it couldn't be fixed in time and principal photography was already wrapped up.

As if Sofia Coppola is as buyable as an actress now as she was in 1990.

Eh it is shorter which is a plus I felt it flowed a little better than the theatrical but I do not like what they did with the ending. Also some of the moments I was hoping they’d edit out they didn’t, Sofia’s “then I’ll love him first” line, the donkey noises, the opera music and the scene where Michael puts a knife to his throat are all still there.

Why did they do it? I heard they had plans for part IV but fell through when Mario Puzo died because he was helping to write it.