Gotti

2018 Directed by Kevin Connolly

He showed the world who's boss.

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.

John Travolta Spencer Lofranco Kelly Preston Pruitt Taylor Vince William DeMeo Leo Rossi Chris Kerson Stacy Keach Ashley Drew Fisher Jordan Trovillion Nik Pajic Chris Mulkey Greg Procaccino Donald John Volpenhein Andrew Fiscella Megan Leonard Nico Bustamante Carter Anderson Kealy Welage Sal Rendino Tyler Jon Olson Patrick Borriello Luis Da Silva Jr. Lydia Hull Robert Pavlovich Michael Woods Jay Seals Ashley Cusato Shea Buckner Show All…

Alternative Titles

Gotti: In the Shadow of My Father, Gotti: Three Generations, The Life and Death of John Gotti, Gotti - Il primo, Gotti - A Real American Godfather

thriller crime history drama

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Popular reviews

Review by josh lewis ★ 16

i kid you not, this movie opens with a nighttime shot of john travolta looking out at the manhattan bridge, turning to face the camera and going "new yawk, da greatest city in da world." it's amazing, they accidentally made the Walk Hard of gangster movies. connolly's operating on so many plains of cliche and incompetence it genuinely becomes difficult to tell if this is utter dogshit or galaxy brain irony. all of the scenes make ~sense~ in the larger vocabulary of gangster movies but there's no work done to dramatize or contextualize them. what crimes do these people even do? this depicts the gambino family like a country club that kills random people sometimes. though, to be fair, this…
Review by James (Schaffrillas) ★★★★★ 34

Alright guys I reviewed Gotti you can stop asking
(I have not seen Gotti)
Review by bybowes ★½ 14

Until I was ten, my dad's main source of income was from bartending, and for several years in that period he worked at a place in Downtown Brooklyn that was a brisk walk from the borough's various courthouses. This is relevant for two reasons: the main one is a prize anecdote starring my dad's friend and coworker Jimmy, wherein during a particularly busy day at the restaurant John Gotti and retinue came in seeking strong drink and a bite to eat, only to be told by Jimmy that there were no tables. "Well *make* a fuckin' table," one of Gotti's companions said. "What do I look like, a fuckin' carpenter?" Jimmy said, looking him dead in the eye. There was…
Review by Evan 11

In 10 years from now will YOU be able to say you saw Gotti in theaters!? Don't miss the opportunity of a lifetime, motherfucker. This is one that needs to be seen to be believed. You haven't actually lived until you've seen Gotti.
Gotti is a film that cannot be given a star rating. I literally cannot rate this movie because I don't know how to. I've thought about a rating for hours and I've concluded this film is unrateable. I don't even know if "unrateable" is a real word, but I don't care because Gotti.
John Travolta Oscar talk? Why the fuck not? After all New York City is the greatest fucking city in the world.
Soundtrack of the year? I think so! FOR CRYING OUT LOUD MR. WORLDWIDE HIMSELF SCORED THIS MOVIE! There are T H R E E Pitbull songs in Gotti, yes you heard that correctly. Fuck!
Fucking. Gotti. Man. Fuck
Review by GottiLover5000 ★★★★★ 21

Wow. What an avant garde indie film. I was blown away by the cinematography. Incredible performances. The script was up there with classics like Pulp Fiction and Citizen Kane. That hack Martin Scorcese wishes he could replicate true cinema like this. Instead he just spits out mob flick after mob flick hoping to come even close to what this filme achieved. Gotti is a movie like none other. You won't see another like it if you live to be 5,000.
11/10
Review by matt lynch 3

We showed this A.I. all your college dorm-mate's favorite gangster movies and then had it make one.
Review by demi adejuyigbe ★ 4

Started joking about this movie at a party so we put it on and had a blast shit talking it the whole time. And for that, I can give it exactly one star.
Review by davidehrlich ★ 11

There are exactly three interesting choices in “Gotti,” Kevin Connolly’s amateurish biopic about the late and legendary New York mobster, John Gotti. (Yes, E from “Entourage” directs movies. No, this isn’t the first one).
The first comes at you right off the top: Inverting an exhausted trend, Connolly opens the movie with footage of the actual people in the story, rather than saving it for the closing credits as per usual. It’s a smart move, if only because John Travolta’s performance is hammy enough that we need hard evidence he’s playing a real person (he plays the Teflon Don like a cross between Ray Liotta and Alec Baldwin’s impression of Donald Trump).
The second interesting choice is that some of…
Review by SilentDawn 11

TL;DF (Too Long; Didn't Finish)
King of New Yawhk.
Review by Mike D'Angelo ★½ 3

25/100
A.V. Club review, in which I couldn't find room to list the many hilarious needle drops. My three favorites:
• Gotti strutting out of court post-acquittal to “Walk Like an Egyptian.”
• “House of the Rising Sun” over Gotti’s funeral procession.
• The synth bassline on “West End Girls” kicking in when a car explodes.
(You really have to see that last one—the whole intro plays while the car sits there onscreen, then the driver turns on the ignition, BOOM!, dum dum dum, da dum da dum.)
Review by Eli Hayes ★ 10

John Gotti knows what real pizza tastes like.
Review by Maxx ★★★★★ 6

This is my Black Panther. This movie empowered me. It helped me get over my rejection from the female known as Victoria who’d rather date a Chad instead of a true gentleman who would treat her well. Amazing cinematography and a great performance by Travolta, who has fortunately moved on from artsy-fartsy hipster trash like Pulp Fiction. Films like Gotti are true art that often get misunderstood by filthy normies who watch Martin Scorsese kiddie movies instead of challenging, thought provoking kino like "A critique of Star Wars: The Last Jedi- Part 1 of 6"

Recent reviews

Review by CLeversha ★

Procedurally generated, I assume. At ironic distance it’s probably a masterpiece.
Review by MRNasher ★★

The makeup that really sets this up for failure. The odd quality of the faces, as if they have made characters look old when they had no need to.
There's some over-acting and scene chewing and really he was an abhorrent man and didn't do much of note besides kill a pretty innocent man.
Review by Nolan Fullington ½

You can't overhype the bad. I was shocked at the ineptitude of this film. I do not kid with the phrase "no plot" because this entire film is like a series of short films that are a scene's-worth long where people talk about mob stuff you have no knowledge of and then the scene ends. We then cut to something ten years in the future or the past and another pointless scene happens where Gotti talks in Scorsese shorthand talk about mob stuff or people named "Jimmy two-bits" or some other dumb name. The mob bosses hang out in like broom closets and hotel rec room basements. John Travolta is actually pretty good but the material is just pathetic. Seriously,…
Review by CigaretteHaver

“Every day I’m alive is a f*ck you to the government”
Review by KING_OF_RATS ½ 1

This movie is better than Garfield's Pet Force
Review by Chewey ★★★★★

yes
Review by Jay ★★

That was very evocative of an 80s TV movie...
But a whole extra star for the scene where Travolta shoots a guy at my old favorite haunt, ‘round the corner from my old house
Review by Ed Wardian ★★

Forgettable depiction of repudiated Gambino crime boss John Gotti. Travolta is wrong for the part. The script pieced together with old file news footage, nothing new here.
Review by Tony Vincent ★★★½

Fulltime score
Cancer - 3 Government - 0
Review by Futurewizard97 ★½

At some moments I was invested because of how horrible the movie was. The uninspired directing and editing is what made this movie bad. Travolta is trying here but with the material given to him didnt work out. The movie is so confusing at times you don't even know what time it is!? You will never see a movie like this if you live to be 5000.
Review by ChrisKingPlus

Not even an ironically good movie
Review by Noah Pines ★

I did not follow what was happening and honestly didn’t care. Too many names and time jumps and Pitbull songs.
Too bad their $10million couldn’t buy them a few lights...