Synopsis
A film about Mark David Chapman in the days leading up to the infamous murder of Beatle John Lennon.
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Cast
- Jared LetoMark David Chapman
- Lindsay LohanNancy Pitman
- Judah FriedlanderPaul
- Ursula AbbottJeri
- Mark Lindsay ChapmanJohn Lennon
- Mariko TakaiYoko Ono
- Michael SirowJoseph
- Kate HigginsGloria
- Jeane FournierProstitute
- Brian O'NeillPatrick
Recommendations
- 70
The Hollywood Reporter
High praise to the cast and crew. Jared Leto is mesmeric as the bloated, deranged Chapman. It's a brilliantly measured performance, evincing the tale of a madman through his own awful rhyme and reason. - 63
New York Daily News
It's a transformative role, but how widely seen it is depends on how strong a stomach one has for wall-to-wall paranoid ravings. - 50
TV Guide Magazine
The film's 85 minutes drag by painfully slowly, because there's no respite from Chapman's tedious, self-pitying reveries. - 40
Film Threat
From what I can tell, the film is generally accurate regarding the events of Dec. 8. But I got as much out of it as I did by looking up Chapman on Wikipedia. - 40
Salon
There's virtually no context provided here, about Lennon or the Beatles or New York or Chapman himself. To put it another way, the film's entire context IS Chapman. - 38
Rolling Stone
Don't hammer this film for trying to get inside the head of Mark David Chapman before he shot John Lennon outside the rock legend's New York apartment on December 8th, 1980. Hammer it instead for failing to do so with any depth or insight. - 30
Variety
Jared Leto gained some 70 pounds. Seemingly following his lead, the pic itself is heavy, lethargic, and exasperating. - 20
Village Voice
A retarded sense of meta is achieved whenever Leto's Chapman goes on about the phony theatrics of film actors, but it's Lindsay Lohan, as über–Lennon fan Jude, who breaks your heart, looking convincingly horrified that she has three undeserved Razzies while Leto has none.
