Gotti (2018)

This movie is actually very entertaining and not nearly as bad as critics suggest. Travolta does a great job, minus the cheesy open and closing narrative scenes. Those should have been cut. Otherwise he was really good.

I can't understand why critics hated this movie so much, even if not historically accurate, it was entertaining. And it gave some interesting perspective on what life might have been like inside Gottis family. See it and judge yourself. It was no worse than at least half the other movies I have seen this year.

Fmovies: I actually enjoyed this movie. It is flawed in the sense that it is really one sided and tends to glorify John Gotti instead of giving a warts and all depiction of his rise and fall in the Gambino family. To enjoy this movie you can't come into it cold, I think I enjoyed it more than most as I knew a lot of the history going into this and was familiar with the people and events depicted in the film. I think a person not familiar with John Gotti, Sammy Gravano, Frank De Cicco, the Gambino family and the other five families in New York would come out of this frustrated as this movie doesn't lay the groundwork, present their characters effectively or explain the relationships within the five families sufficient to tell a coherent story. In spite of the flaws I enjoyed this film and enjoyed John Travolta's performance.

This film was horrible. John Travolta as John Gotti ? That's a joke. Not even remotely close. Love him or hate him, John Gotti was a gangster's, gangster. One of a kind, and never to be seen again. Btw, Armand Asante did a better job in the HBO movie.

Gotti fmovies. The best acting in that film is the actual news footage they used. If you know anything of mafia history and mafia documentaries, you would realize that the script was written primarily from John Gotti Jr's 60 minutes interview with a couple other lines taken from FBI recordings. It's a complete waste of time. You're better off watching YouTube.

As an Italian ( an Italian of Italy, not an Italian American), I feel offended, disgusted as well as ashamed by this movie and by those who directed and produced it. Not only is this movie poorly directed and boring but also the way it defends Gotti is simply shameful, almost stockholm syndrome-like. I feel "sorry" for Travolta for he is a good actor who need more chances, but this movie is terrible and it deserves the commercial and critical failure it had.

The filmmakers had absolutely no idea what they wanted out of this movie. You can tell it took 44 producers and 8 years to make. Who was the protagonist? What style did they want to adopt? Is it a documentary? A character piece? A chronology of John Gotti's life? I couldn't tell. There was 4 time lines happening at once. Way to many names and places. It was simply boring and had no suspense. However, Travolta's performance wasn't bad, the script was. He definitly did the best he could with what he was given. Long story short, I have no more affection or knowledge of the Gotti family now than I did before the movie. Go watch the Sopranos instead.