We’ve seen some good sequels and we’ve seen plenty of bad ones. But when a movie franchise hits Part 3 the test for a continuing storyline is at its toughest. Most of the time Part 3 is a lazy retelling of the first two movies (“Friday The 13th Part 3”), a studio cash-in (“Spider-Man III”), a misjudged change of direction (“Halloween 3: Season of the Witch”), or a weak ending to a film trilogy (“Scream 3”, “The Godfather Part 3”). But sometimes we’ll find a really good third movie – one that we discover is better than Part 2. Continuing our (controversial) look at film sequels, read on to see the 10 best Part 3s that are better than the Part 2s which preceded them.

If Top 10 lists tell us more about the person or persons making them than the films themselves, Quentin Tarantino’s favourite movies confirms he is the true nerd of modern cinema. He loves cult films that operate away from the mainstream and generally below the sort of critical appreciation offered by his contemporaries, and prefers niche genre tactics over classical Hollywood narrative (apart from his inclusion of “His Girl Friday”).
John Walker, who compiled a list of the greatest 1000 movies ever made, said of Tarantino’s choices, “he lives up to …