re: Does anyone else find Godfather II just a little hard to follow?

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No, you're right, the plotting is murky in The Godfather Part II. People overlook it because it's a great movie, but the Lake Tahoe assassination attempt has logic holes in it, and the botched attempt on Frank Pentangeli is unnecessarily confusing because of the "Michael Corleone says hello!" adlib.

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The frank failed assignation was set up Roth. The "Michael says hello" was just a twist of the knife as the guy was dieing.

Fredo was tied to it because he was feeding Roth info that allowed them to into the house. Michael figured it out at the Mandingo show because he said he Johnny ola (junior soprano) Showed him the bar when he previously told Michael that he didn't know him. This is what tipped him off that fredo had been flipped


The Michael story is a bit subtle. I think it gets better as rewatch.