Gotti

 Going into this, I was very excited to see this. Not on the possibility that it be good, but all the press it has received for receiving a zero percent on rotten tomatoes. The filmmakers  shot back, saying that the critics are "trolls with keyboards". Now if you look at the user reviews on rotten tomatoes, it is a little more divided, with a sixty- one percent approval rating. So in this case, who is right?
  The film tells the story of how John Gotti ( John Travolta) rose through the Gambino crime family until his conviction in 1992. By the time of his incarceration, he made it to the head of the Gambino family.
  The crap in this movie starts from the very beginning. There is a fourth wall break for no reason at all that does not have any need for it. It comes back at the end, no reason.
  This movie has a strange use of music through this film, in particular, the use of Pitbull two different times.  When it comes to Bio pic films they work when the film keeps music from the relevant time period. Considering the movie ends in 2002, Pitbull is yet to be.
 This is a movie that tries to paint Gotti in more of a positive light , which does not work when you are trying to paint the life of a ruthless mobster, things tend to become a little convoluted when that happens. It does not help that the movie is only an hour and forty- five minutes. There is a lot of time jumping through this makes it hard to keep the story coherent, and caring about the people in the story.
 The acting, overall lacked as a whole when it came to the cast. It varied from truly awful, (Spencer Rocco Lofranco who plays John Gotti Jr.) to perhaps... not good (Kelly Preston who plays Victoria Gotti) . The one exception I could put to it is John Travolta was ok in the film.
 To conclude, this movie does deserve it's critic's Rotten Tomatoes ratings, one hundred percent.
GRADE: F