I like how the movie expands the 'personal vs business' debate even more compared to the first movie, IMO. While the first movie had strictly business villains like Solozzo & Barzini, literally everyone opposing Michael in the second movie is doing so because they hate him personally just that much.

What the first one has that the second doesn't is a *brilliant* Al Pacino performance. Don't get me wrong he's amazing in the second one, but in the first one you get to see the light disappear from his eyes and I can't think of a movie that replicated that as well.

Right, while it works in the second with Michael being a machine except when his role as the family patriarch is threatened by Kay & Fredo, it also makes him less dynamic & more frustrating. Also, the final shot of the movie should have been Michael alone at the table, not the shot afterwards.