Gotti: The Rise and Fall of a Real Life Mafia Don
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Movie Reviews of Gotti: The Rise and Fall of a Real Life Mafia Don
Movie Review: Sold As New But Wasn't
Summary: 3 Stars
I dont believe the item I bought was fit into new status. All DVD's have some sort
of plastic packaging and or security labels. This did not. If I wanted used I could
have saved a few bucks instead of paying into the new classification.
Movie Review: Gotti
Summary: 3 Stars
The movie had its moments some of the dialogue was hard to understand but the acting was fine. Assante and Quinn both were very good in their roles. It's worth buying if your into mafia movies.Movie Review: There's better!
Summary: 3 Stars
This movie was kind of disappointing. I gave it three stars just cause I love mafia movies and it is watchable. Get WITNESS to The MOB instead.Movie Review: A string to facts about the unfolding Gotti story
Summary: 2 Stars
Gotti (1996) (TV), is informative to the extent that it is able to
tell a string to facts about the unfolding of the Gotti story in
the 1980's and 90's.
Not being an scholar, taken at face value, a lot of what this HBO
production tells, is apparently accurate and factual.
For example, indeed, on Sep. 29, 1986, TIME magazine featured Gotti
on the front page.
Also, the testimony of Sammy the Bull is public, and as such, would
not require much imagination to weave into the script of this
movie the the script writer.
Also, a fair amount of detail seems to match what is seen in another
movie, Boss of Bosses starring Chazz Palminteri.
If there are weak points in the work, it would be the excess
swearing on camera, as well as the juvenile, introverted dialog
that is often shown on screen, as if Gotti was unable to see things
from any other point of view or angle, than his own. This is an
absurd notion, cheapening the fact that this was the leader of the
Gamino family, a major organization, and not of a high school
project or small fry association.
On the other hand, the legal implications of the underlying
operations runs by Gotti, are well demonstrated, in their
seriousness, definitiveness, and far-reaching potential, in
particular, of the RICO statutes in catching, convicting and imprisoning
alleged organized criminals.
At the end of the day, perhaps what did Gotti in, was his mass
media prominence, exposure and macro and micro influence in society
which threatened its integrity, risking creating millions of
negative copy-cat, non-compliant behavior of normal citizens, something
that could not be tolerated by the elite or by the majority at large.
On the other band, the recession of 2008 in the USA, economic
failures and misconduct of Wall St. organizations and the
victims of the war in the Middle East, ( since the turn of the
decade), is as serious, if not more, than organized crime,
yet ... gets a free pass simply because the integrity of society is
not at risk, nor does running the printing presses with fiat
currency, and indebting future generations (who have no voice
today) result in any protests today.
In sum, the movie's script is somewhat shaky, by making the
success of Gotti seem too easy, too juvenile, too simple, taken for
granted ... as if anyone who is trigger-happy is only a step away from
making a million dollars when that is anything but the case. A
street killer with a pistol does not a millionaire make.
Movie Review: decent acting, but complete fiction
Summary: 2 Stars
I give the movie 2 stars because I think Armande Aassante did a decent job portraying Gotti (although he wasn't ruthless enough, I'm sure he just did what he was told) the guy who played Sammy G was good too but his height was totally off (the real Sammy was shorter than Gotti). All that aside, the movie was complete fiction. Although this movie painted a favourable picture of Gotti, I think Gotti himself would have disliked it because it was so off. Major and minor facts in this movie are completely off. A few examples.. This movie shows Gotti meeting Sammy when Carlo Gambino was boss, and Gotti went to Carlo's apartment where he met Sammy and was ordered to do the hit in retaliation for Carlo's nephew's kidnapping. In reality, Sammy wasn't even associated with the Gambino family until after Carlo died.. before that, he was in the columbo family and he switched to the gambino family because of an internal dispute.. He was made under Paul Castellano, as was Gotti. Aside from that, it would be highly irregular for an unmade man to meet the Boss at all, let alone at his house.. Unmade men are required to communicate with the boss through the made guy that vouches for them. Also, Sammy had only met Carlo once, and that was just briefly at a party. Another major error was Gotti's relationship with Angie after Angie got caught on tape and brought major heat on his whole crew for the drug charges.. After that happened and Gotti gained power he wanted to whack Angie out, but people clsoe to Gotti strongly advised him against it. Gotti NEVER went to see Angie in the hospital when he had cancer, despite the fact that he'd known him since they were kids. Gotti took away all Angie's power, and Angie died alone and with no dignitiy. Gotti wouldn't have even gone to the funeral if other people in the family didn't drag him there to keep up appearances. I think the real Gotti would have been angry with the way they showed his relationship with Angie, he told everyone of his discontent with Angie after the tapes. There are many many major and minor fact and timeline glitches that make this movie frusterating to watch if you are familiar with the real events/timelines. I see NO reason at all for getting these details wrong, it could have been ever more of an interesting movie if they would have stuck to the facts and put in different aspects of the story. They could have shown more of the courtroom drama that led to his "Teflon Don" reputation. Some of the aspects of the trial Giacalone brought against him were really classic, and completely out there ... I could go on and on.. This movie is one case where hollywood has no justification for having their facts totally off.