It was meant to be a 'gangster movie classic' - up there with Casino and Goodfellas, but John Travolta's new flick Gotti, has been trashed online, earning an abysmal 0% on Rotten Tomatoes. Yikes.
The movie follows the life of John Gotti, the infamous gangster, and spans 36 years and sees Travolta wearing all sorts of prosthetics as he rises up the ranks of the mob. Gotti was directed by Kevin Connolly and also stars Travolta's real-life wife Kelly Preston as Gotti's wife Victoria.
When I heard this movie was coming out I was pretty excited. Who doesn't love a gangster movie plus the story of Gotti is actually really interesting. Although based on these reviews, even an interesting story can be told badly and it sounds like the filmakers totally fucked this one. Johnny Oleksinski, film critic for the New York Post tore the film a new asshole:
This is the worst mob movie of all time. I'd rather wake up next to a severed horse head than ever watch Gotti again.
If you thought that was bad, Brian Orndorf of Blu-Ray.com wrote "There are 44 credited producers on the picture and not one person had the nerve to question just what kind of derivative, borderline nonsensical film was being made" and Jordan Mintzer, from the Hollywood Reporter wrote "The film is pretty terrible: poorly written, devoid of tension, ridiculous in spots and just plain dull in others." Jeez. Sounds pretty atrocious. The movie is out in the UK in September but you'd be nuts to fork out money on this when the reviews are this bad. How embarrasing. Travolta's career is going to need rescuing after this.