Johnny Oleksinski at the New York
Post pans the John Travolta John Gotti.
I’d rather wake up next to a
severed horse head than ever watch “Gotti” again.
The worst movie of the year
so far, the long-awaited biopic about the Gambino crime boss’ rise from made
man to top dog took four directors, 44 producers and eight years to make.
It shows. The finished
product belongs in a cement bucket at the bottom of the river.
Keeping this mafioso mess
alive throughout all the turmoil has been John Travolta, playing John Gotti.
Travolta, who’s made a career out of Italian stereotypes, obviously thought the
Dapper Don would be his Don Corleone. It’s his Chef Boyardee.
In one scene, he yells
“whatsamattayou?!” and slaps one of his minions. In another, after John
“Junior” Gotti starts a bar fight where a guy winds up dead, Travolta screams,
“You c–ksucker! This is gonna ruin your life!” and again slaps him in the face.
His performance is a
leather-faced freak show. And the plot is nonsensical.
You can read the rest of the
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Note: The HBO film Gotti with
Armand Assante as John Gotti was a fairly good film. Armand Assante received an
Emmy Award for best lead actor.
... John Travolta defended "flattering" portrait of the man via the below link:
https://www.insideedition.com/john-travolta-defends-flattering-portrayal-john-gotti-new-biopic-44201
... John Travolta defended "flattering" portrait of the man via the below link:
https://www.insideedition.com/john-travolta-defends-flattering-portrayal-john-gotti-new-biopic-44201
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