Gotti
Lionsgate Premiere | Release Date: June 15, 2018 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
24
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 16 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
2
Negative:
13
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
63
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperJun 14, 2018
The long-delayed biopic Gotti is an entertaining and well-acted but uneven B-movie. Read full review
50
Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyJun 19, 2018
The problem with the film’s buckshot “this-happened-and-then-that-happened” storyline is that Connolly keeps hurtling ahead from scene to scene trying to touch every base in Gotti’s life of crime without every letting any one moment breathe long enough for it to resonate. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinJun 16, 2018
Although 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. Read full review
38
Movie NationRoger MooreJun 26, 2018
It’s a bad movie, but it has hints of the simplest failing of a lot of movies made by folks who come from long-form TV. It’s episodic to a fault, with no episodes fleshed out and developed, characters played by actors at least as interesting as Chris Mulkey (as underboss Frank DeCicco) and not the generic goombahs rounded up here. Read full review
38
Philadelphia Daily NewsGary ThompsonJun 17, 2018
Gotti ends up feeling like a kitschy assemblage of other directors’ ideas. Read full review
33
UproxxVince ManciniJun 19, 2018
Gotti is technically inept, where every scene feels like a disconnected sizzle reel for a different movie than the previous one, but the fascinating thing it about is less what it fails to do than what it’s trying to do. Read full review
33
The A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloJun 15, 2018
Scorsese 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. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterJordan MintzerJun 11, 2018
Travolta 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. Read full review
25
Rolling StonePeter TraversJun 19, 2018
John Travolta, trying earnestly to act his way through a ton of lousy makeup and an even heavier slab of bad screenwriting, plays mafioso John Gotti in this chaotic biopic that jumps all over the place but still fails to manifest a pulse. Read full review
25
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoJun 15, 2018
There may one day be a great movie made about John Gotti. This one ain’t it. Read full review
25
IndieWireDavid EhrlichJun 11, 2018
Connolly’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. Read full review
20
New York Daily NewsStephen Whitty Jun 19, 2018
Admittedly, Travolta, who produced, is sure having fun. What ham wouldn’t? Chewing on the scenery like it was a meatball hero, he swaggers around in shiny suits and silver wigs, barking orders. Read full review
20
VarietyPeter DebrugeJun 11, 2018
[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. Read full review
16
ConsequenceDominick Suzanne-MayerJun 16, 2018
When the film isn’t simply boring, it becomes unintentionally hilarious in its occasionally inept production. Read full review
0
New York PostJohnny OleksinskiJun 19, 2018
I’d rather wake up next to a severed horse head than ever watch Gotti again. Read full review
0
The New York TimesGlenn KennyJun 17, 2018
That 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. Read full review
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