I am floored. This movie not only accurately portrayed the life of John Gotti, it also had phenomenal acting and writing. Don't get me started on the soundtrack. The rap song used for Gotti's ascent was incredible! I haven't heard anything like that since MC Pesci came out with Wiseguy, a genre defining track. Casino and Goodfellas were not shot nearly as well as gotti, and house of the rising sun was used far better in Gotti than in the Casino finale. One thing I would like to point out is how perfectly cast Gotti's son was. If you watch interviews, the actor who plays him looks just like Gotti jr! Its kind of scary. Towards the end of the movie, they gave Jr. gray hair and used cutting edge makeup to age him, and it is quite remarkable how good a job they did. You almost feel as though it is a documentary. The exposition where Jr. is explaining to his confused lawyer how RICO works was also quite clever, because it allows the audience to understand the nuances of law, and helps the confused lawyer figure out that he is not the legal mind he thought he was. John Travolta is fed line after great line and the other actors look and sound very Italian and like they are from New York. They must have spend years researching their roles! Wow! I thought I was in the mob after being immersed by their performances. Can any cinemaphile really find another mob movie that comes close to this? If he were still alive, I would have thought this was Coppola's swan song. I think the Godfather III is by far his best movie, but even that would take a distant second to Gotti. Lets take a moment to discuss the transitions. The plot moves rapidly along, and what I really like about Gotti is that we see him as boss for 5 minutes, and are not really shown his rule or what specifically caused his downfall. During the five minutes, Travolta delivers some killer scoldings to his underlings and has to let Angelo go. It is an emotional scene and is worth the price of the ticket alone. The rest of Gotti's time as boss and his subsequent arrest and trial is mainly left up to the viewer's imagination, and I was able to imagine scenes as gripping as the ones these wonderful filmmakers showed in the movie already! I'm sorry for gushing, but everyone on this subreddit needs to get to the theater immediately! Lastly, the movie shows the positive impact Gotti had on NY. It wasn't right for them to try him and his son, and the movie makes a solid case for a posthumous acquittal for Teflon Don. Hell, just talk to the people of Queens like the director did. Please see this movie, then thank me later!
Submitted June 29, 2018 at 07:44AM by GdanskBoy https://ift.tt/2lFfzhP