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: Armand Assante makes me ill
Summary: 2 Stars
A fictional tale... Armand Assante plays the same character the same way with the same accent in every movie - POORLY. Armand once again proves he's a one trick pony w/ his portrayal of the John Gotti character. Hey Armand, take acting lessons.Movie Review: Gotti makes a movie about himself.
Summary: 1 Stars
A truly awful movie which changes gangster John Gotti to Holy John with a pathetic, outrageous script which was accepted and, reportedly, partially rewritten by Gotti's son "Junior", in order to whitewash his Don Daddy. I'm ready to believe that "Junior" actually wrote parts of the script because even though Hollywood lives on lies, even the most hypocritical people in there are not so primitive as to actually create a movie consisting *only* of hundreds of blatant lies, small and big, and try to pass it as "a true story". There is, quite literally, not a shred of truth in this film. Yes, as 100% fiction is might be entertaining enough for perhaps even three stars, but I cannot and will not accept it as the "truth" it tries to present itself as. Therefore, it gets one star - one too many!Some of the lies that this movie consists of:
The cover of Time carried Gotti painted by Andy Warhol. Apparently Gotti prefers baroque photos to pop art - so this movie shows a *photo* of Gotti on Time's cover.
Paul Castellano was not a repulsive "whale" with a constant nasty look on his face. He was tall, not overweight, and actually polite and sophisticated for a gangster (possibly because he considered himself a "clean" businessman, which is what helped Gotti killed him when he felt threatened by Paul). He had no problems constructing a sentence, either (unlike Gotti...).
Gotti abused and assaulted Piecyk first. Piecyk didn't look or act like a boorish bald copy of Fred Flintstone (this movie gives him this look to make him more repulsive to the viewer).
One of the biggest lies: the movie shows the aftermath of the death of Gotti's son it this way: Gotti says that "it was just an accident", forbids any sort of revenge on the man who ran over his son, and then angry Sammy Gravano goes and kills the "offender" himself, against the order. Yeahhhhh... right. In reality, Gotti ordered the "offending" neighbor to be kidnapped and killed with a chainsaw. He left the city for the day of the murder to have an alibi. His wife knew about it, too. Sammy Gravano didn't even know that the man was to die.
Sammy Gravano was not "born in a rich family".
Sammy Gravano was the *strongest* "link" in the "arrested chain". In fact, apart from Gotti himself, he was the only man that the FBI *never* expected to defect. Sammy was shaken when he heard the tapes on which Gotti abused him and told lies about him, but even then he didn't decide to defect. He only made the decision when he learned that Gotti was planning to frame his for everything *he* was accused of, and more - to walk out free, leaving Sammy in jail. Originally, Sammy wanted to take the "traditional" revenge and kill Gotti in jail, but then realized that Gotti's family would then murder his wife and children; that's why he decided to go for Witness Protection. Gotti tried to get Sammy's family after that, anyway, but they were under protection already.
Sammy's family did not disown him. They had a row after his decision but all that quickly ended and after the trial they all left together for Arizona.
Gotti ordered Sammy's kin and DiBernardo to die. Sammy opposed both ideas but reluctantly accepted them when the boss gave the orders.
Gotti was not the "idol" of the jury - Sammy Gravano simply bought one of the members of the jury for 60 thousand, to acquit his boss.
Gotti's vocabulary is even smaller than that of the character Armand Assante plays (the character certainly isn't Gotti - it's, as I said, "Holy John"). He mostly uses four-letter words. His actual IQ is classified as normal, not as "genius".
Gotti gave the homeless man the "whole" 50 dollars - the movie makes him change his decision and give a hundred. This single little lie already shows you the whole scheme that the makers prepared.
There's one good thing about this movie - William Forsythe. Although he was probably ordered to make Sammy Gravano act, sound and seem nasty, he at least *looks* not much unlike Sammy. I was amazed that "Junior" actually agreed to have Sammy's character look like that instead of doing what he did with Paul Castellano and making Sammy e.g. a fat bald midget with one eye and hare lip... By the way, ever wondered why Quinn took a role in this movie? Here's a hint: he was on Gotti's trial as a supporter, too. For a movie closer to the truth, see "Witness to the Mob", with Tom Sizemore as Gotti...
Movie Review: If you know Gotti, run from this movie
Summary: 1 Stars
If you have read about John Gotti or know anything about Johnny Boy, stay far away from this GARBAGE movie. They had plenty of books to go to for information on Gotti and it was like they made it up. I don't think 5% of the movie was accurate. As a "mob" fanatic I was outraged to even watch this movie.Movie Review: this is bad business
Summary: 1 Stars
you shouldn't sell scratched up movies. You should check them before you sell them. That Gotti movie is all scratched up i cant even watch it