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16 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 63Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperChicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperThe long-delayed biopic Gotti is an entertaining and well-acted but uneven B-movie.
- 50Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinLos Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinAlthough 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.
- 38Philadelphia Daily NewsGary ThompsonPhiladelphia Daily NewsGary ThompsonGotti ends up feeling like a kitschy assemblage of other directors’ ideas.
- 33The A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloThe A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloScorsese 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.
- 30The Hollywood ReporterJordan MintzerThe Hollywood ReporterJordan MintzerTravolta 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.
- 25IndieWireDavid EhrlichIndieWireDavid EhrlichConnolly’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.
- 25RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoRogerEbert.comBrian TallericoThere may one day be a great movie made about John Gotti. This one ain’t it.
- 20VarietyPeter DebrugeVarietyPeter Debruge[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.
- 16ConsequenceDominick Suzanne-MayerConsequenceDominick Suzanne-MayerWhen the film isn’t simply boring, it becomes unintentionally hilarious in its occasionally inept production.
- 0The New York TimesGlenn KennyThe New York TimesGlenn KennyThat the long-gestating crime drama Gotti is a dismal mess comes as no surprise. What does shock is just how multifaceted a dismal mess it is.