Director Francis Ford Coppola has tweaked the structure and edit of The Godfather: Part III to produce this slightly long version with a different start and a different end. But don't be fooled that this adds anything particularly new, in fact for the most part its the same film, and, for me, the ending here is strangely weird considering the new title - The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone.. The original film was much derided on release and has never really garnered the accolades of the previous two films, masterpieces both. I have a suspicion that Coppola has been wounded ever since and this is his attempt to try and convince everyone that The Godfather: Part III is as good. He's wrong. This new cut changes nothing in the plot and if you agree with Al Pacino Michael Corleone's narrative efforts to become respectable don't fit with the conscience free Michael of the previous films. There is much to admire in this film and some of the set pieces are well constructed but the climax is too similar to that of The Godfather (1972) and obviously so. So overall this new edit is somewhat disappointing and bears no similarity to the excitement of Coppola's tinkering with Apocalypse Now (1979). If you want my advice it's stick to the original release version, its slightly more satisfying.