Luca Messina, his mother, his daughter and his entourage (including two Kung Fu fighters!) arrive in Hamburg. Messina wants to muscle in on the territory of Otto Westermann so there follows intimidation and murder as Messina tries to supplant Westerman as the crime kingpin of the city. So the titular Godfathers battle until the unsurprising ending but it's not a patch on Coppola's Godfather films. There is a Romeo and Juliet element between the children of the Godfathers but it's not a patch on Shakespeare either. It's not that exciting or original.
It does however have Henry Silva and Herbert Fleischmann as the main protagonists and they make the best of their cliched roles. The rest of the cast are forgettable. The best thing is the motorboat chase near the end around the docklands area of the city. And the sang-froid of Messina's Mother who carries on eating even after a bomb explodes in the swimming pool. That was funny.
It does however have Henry Silva and Herbert Fleischmann as the main protagonists and they make the best of their cliched roles. The rest of the cast are forgettable. The best thing is the motorboat chase near the end around the docklands area of the city. And the sang-froid of Messina's Mother who carries on eating even after a bomb explodes in the swimming pool. That was funny.