Gotti

'Listen to me, and listen to me good. You never gonna see another guy like me if you live to be five thousand,' Travolta's Teflon Don boasts in the final scene. With any luck, we'll never see another mob-movie misfire like this either.

A comically terrible imitation of a biopic, directed by Kevin Connolly with all the flair and nuance of a movie-within-a-movie on 'Entourage.'

He looks distractingly terrible at every stop...You never forget that you are watching John Travolta playing John Gotti every time.

It's more run-of-the-mill than it is colossally misguided.

Gotti tries too hard to cram too much information into a small space, and you come away learning almost nothing about the man, other than the filmmakers feel he was a pretty stand-up guy.

You might think this sounds hilariously bad. It must be so bad it's kind of good, right? Wrong. Gotti is not remotely fun, even ironically.

Mob movies can make for great cinema. But, curiosity isnt by itself worthy of art, which makes Gotti more informational than good.

A Gotti awful mess.

It's the Gigli of gangster movies, something astoundingly incoherent that strikes that fatal balance of boredom and unintentional humor that's virtually impossible to recommend.

This biopic is always in a rush, establishing plot points here and there, but never explaining any of them. [Full review in Spanish]