Watching the movie last night the idea dawned on me, that Tom was weak. He tried to have Sonny do the deal with Sollozzo even after he thought Vito could die. He showed emotion too much when he should have kept it under control, like when Sollozzo told him that Vito was dead and other times with Mike. He and allowed Mike to walk all over him and push him out of the insider part of family business. In deleted scenes from the script for Part II he was having an affair with Sandra. I don't get the feeling that he was weak in the book as much as in the films but I do think that the thought that Tom was a weak person is always there. Maybe it's because of his Irish/German background. Sonny was right, he needed a Sicilian consigliere.

I am not saying that this makes him a bad character since I think Tom is one of the most fascinating characters of the movies but I did notice the weakness in Tom when I watched the movie last night.

Any thoughts?