The Harshest Reviews Of 'Gotti,' Which Has A 0% Fresh Rating On Rotten Tomatoes
โ"Gotti," which stars John Travolta as the titular gangster, premiered at Cannes. It was, how do we put this lightly, not well received. As it stands, the movie is raking in a 0% fresh rating on RottenTomatoes and a dismal 25 on Metacritic. The film's distributors are lashing out at "troll" reviewers, and it's easy to see why they're feeling defensive when you start reading the reviews:
The Direction (By Kevin Connolly, AKA 'E' From 'Entourage') Is… Not Good
- "[E]ven the most liberally tempered expectations cannot explain the extent and scope of the disaster here, the sheer lack of basic cinematic competence." [amNewYork]
- "When the film isn't simply boring, it becomes unintentionally hilarious in its occasionally inept production." [Consequence of Sound]
- "[It] feels like its script was shredded in an effort to destroy evidence and later taped back together on deadline." [Detroit News]
- "The worst movie of the year so far, the long-awaited biopic… 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." [New York Post]
- "'Gotti' feels like it was directed by a 40-year-old man who owns a framed Scarface poster." [UPROXX]
It's Definitely Not 'Goodfellas'
- "[I]t's the '7-Minute Abs' version of "Goodfellas," but somehow so much worse than that sounds." [IndieWire]
- "It's DrabFellas." [AV Club]
It's Just Really, Really Bad
- "He may have been a murderer, but even Gotti deserved better than this." [RogerEbert.com]
- "That the long-gestating crime drama 'Gotti' is a dismal mess comes as no surprise. What does shock is just how multifaceted a dismal mess it is." [New York Times]
- "As the Teflon Don tells us upfront: 'This life ends one of two ways: Dead, or in jail. I did both.' Audiences, sentenced to do time with this corpse of a movie, will know the feeling." [Rolling Stone]
- "This move is an unmitigated travesty." [Pajiba]
- "Unlike 'Battlefield Earth,' the earnest awfulness of which could be blamed on Travolta's involvement in Scientology, 'Gotti' has a stink of sleaze about it." [Variety]
Here's The Trailer, If You Really Want To Watch