{"id":142740,"date":"2018-06-18T12:25:51","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T12:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/john-travolta-mob-film-gotti-gets-whacked-by-critics\/"},"modified":"2018-06-18T12:25:51","modified_gmt":"2018-06-18T12:25:51","slug":"john-travolta-mob-film-gotti-gets-whacked-by-critics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/john-travolta-mob-film-gotti-gets-whacked-by-critics\/","title":{"rendered":"John Travolta mob film Gotti gets whacked by critics"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"John Travolta and John Getty, pictured in 1990\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/147CF\/production\/_102091938_travolta2_afpgetty.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  AFP\/Getty Images<figcaption>Image caption                                      Travolta plays Gotti, pictured in 1990, at various points in his life and career                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">John Travolta&#039;s troubled biopic of New York crime boss John Gotti has finally reached cinemas, and the critics have only one thing to say: fuhgeddaboudit.<\/p>\n<p>One reviewer called it the &quot;worst mob movie of all time&quot;, while another said it was &quot;a dismal mess&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>The reviews are so damning that Gotti has achieved the rare distinction of getting a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.<\/p>\n<p>Two previous Travolta films - Staying Alive and Look Who&#039;s Talking Now - are among those to have the same score.<\/p>\n<p>Stacy Keach and Travolta&#039;s wife, Kelly Preston, also have roles in Gotti, which has yet to have a UK release date.<\/p>\n<p>Numerous other actors, among them Al Pacino, Joe Pesci and Lindsay Lohan, were also attached to the film during its seven-year gestation.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pacino joins Gotti mobster drama<\/li>\n<li>Joe Pesci sues Gotti film producers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Directed by former Entourage star Kevin Connolly, the film charts John Gotti&#039;s rise from mob enforcer to head of the Gambino crime family.<\/p>\n<p>Known as both &quot;The Dapper Don&quot; and &quot;The Teflon Don&quot;, Gotti was eventually convicted of murder and extortion and died in prison in 2002.<\/p>\n<figure>                                                                                                       Image copyright                  Reuters<figcaption>Image caption                                      Kevin Connolly (left) directs while Kelly Preston plays Gotti&#039;s wife Victoria                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Speaking at this year&#039;s Cannes Film Festival, Travolta admitted making the film had been &quot;a challenge&quot; despite his attachment to the project.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;You put my name with the Gotti name and it reeks of a story that should be told,&quot; he told reporters. &quot;But Hollywood can be odd.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;There was a lot of stress in getting Gotti made,&quot; he continued. &quot;But I knew if we did it well, we could pull it off.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The Hollywood Reporter begs to differ, describing the film as &quot;poorly written, devoid of tension, ridiculous in spots and just plain dull in others.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>                           Skip Youtube post  by Gotti Film                          Warning: Third party content may contain adverts             Report             <\/p>\n<p>End of Youtube post  by Gotti Film<\/p>\n<figure>                          <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Youtube post by Gotti Film: GOTTI Official Trailer\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/socialembed\/https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=m290GmN-Q7Q~\/news\/entertainment-arts-44518822\"\/>Image Copyright Gotti Film                         Gotti Film                                          <noindex><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/contact-us\/editorial\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Report<\/a><\/noindex>                 <\/figure>\n<p>According to Rolling Stone, the film sees its star &quot;trying earnestly to act his way through a ton of lousy make-up and an even heavier slab of bad screenwriting.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Yet Entertainment Weekly is kinder to the Pulp Fiction actor, saying he &quot;somehow manages to summon a ferocious and committed performance while everything else around him falls to pieces.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Other films to receive a 0% rating from Rotten Tomatoes include Jaws: The Revenge, Return to the Blue Lagoon and Adam Sandler&#039;s The Ridiculous 6.<\/p>\n<p>The Emoji Movie also received a 0% rating from the reviews aggregator site when it came out last year, though that has since risen to 8%.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sad face: Emoji Movie gets thumbs down<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Rotten Tomatoes uses critics&#039; reviews to give films a score on its &quot;Tomatometer&quot;. Films rated 60% or higher are considered &quot;fresh&quot;, while those with a score below 60% are deemed &quot;rotten&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>The site also gives films an &quot;audience score&quot; based on the percentage of users who have rated them 3.5 stars or higher.<\/p>\n<p>Gotti currently has a 79% audience score, with a number of contributors giving it five stars.<\/p>\n<p>The two scores often reveal significant disparities, with some movies scoring far higher with audiences than they do with critics - and vice versa.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<th>Film title<\/th>\n<th>Tomatometer score<\/th>\n<th>Audience score<\/th>\n<th>Percentage difference<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>The Boondock Saints<\/td>\n<td>20%<\/td>\n<td>91%<\/td>\n<td>71%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Step Up<\/td>\n<td>19%<\/td>\n<td>83%<\/td>\n<td>64%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Without a Paddle<\/td>\n<td>14%<\/td>\n<td>68%<\/td>\n<td>54%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Spy Kids<\/td>\n<td>93%<\/td>\n<td>46%<\/td>\n<td>47%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Star Wars: The Last Jedi<\/td>\n<td>91%<\/td>\n<td>46%<\/td>\n<td>45%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Hail, Caesar!<\/td>\n<td>85%<\/td>\n<td>44%<\/td>\n<td>41%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. 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