Synopsis
John Gotti rises to the top of the New York underworld to become the boss of the Gambino crime family. His life takes a tumultuous turn as he faces tragedy, multiple trials and a prison sentence.
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Cast
- John TravoltaJohn Gotti
- Spencer LofrancoJohn A. ‘'Junior' Gotti
- Kelly PrestonVictoria Gotti
- Pruitt Taylor VinceAngelo Ruggiero
- William DeMeoSammy ‘The Bull’ Gravano
- Leo RossiBobby Boriello
- Chris KersonWilfred 'Willie Boy' Johnson
- Stacy KeachNeil Dellacroce
- Ashley Drew FisherVickie
- Jordan TrovillionAngel
Recommendations
- 63
Chicago Sun-Times
The long-delayed biopic Gotti is an entertaining and well-acted but uneven B-movie. - 50
Los Angeles Times
Although this unsettlingly sympathetic biopic covering around the last 30 years in the life of famed New York mobster John Gotti is mostly well-acted and frequently entertaining, it bites off more than it can — or even needs to — chew, packing it all into a less-than-epic running time. - 38
Philadelphia Daily News
Gotti ends up feeling like a kitschy assemblage of other directors’ ideas. - 33
The A.V. Club
Scorsese goes to the trouble of making his antiheroes charismatic and exciting. Gotti, by contrast, inadvertently argues that John Gotti and his namesake son are too dull to be evil. It’s DrabFellas. - 30
The Hollywood Reporter
Travolta is a lively presence in some scenes, talking in a rowdy New Yawka accent and tossing off a few good lines early on. (The highlight being: "If I robbed a church and had the steeple sticking out of my ass, I would deny it.") But he can do little to bring this tedious and episodic chronicle to life. - 25
IndieWire
Connolly’s biopic isn’t a hagiography. The problem is that it’s not really anything. This is a strange thing to say about a notorious mob boss who was locked up for murder, but John Gotti deserved better. - 25
RogerEbert.com
There may one day be a great movie made about John Gotti. This one ain’t it. - 20
Variety
[Travolta's] performance ain’t lousy, but the movie that surrounds it is, and it’s almost laughable to see this iconic star trying so hard on behalf of a project that is so compromised in its intentions.
