I avoided watching this movie for several years because I couldn’t imagine it being able to live up to expectations. Upon watching it I was pleasantly surprised at its ability to stick to the theme of the first two movies and carefully build upon them in a 1980’s setting. The scenes depicting Italy are invaluable. The storyline was clearly extremely ambitious but I think the writers, producers and actors sold it well enough. One and two are my favorite movies of all time, three is not up there but I give it two thumbs up. Better than expected.