Gotti (Armand Assante) was quite good.
Did you like Travolta's take?
The Travolta one is horrible, but a fun watch because it's so bad.
This was my review years ago -
3/10 as a mob film. 7/10 as a good bad film.
The Good - Nice sound track. No flow to it, but some decent songs.
The Bad -
Travolta looks like he's wearing a rubber mask in many scenes.
Very little fleshing out of the story. A lot of one line explanations for murders ( E.g. - "Oh, I had to go do a piece of business"), and lots of use of old news footage to help the story along. Not well done, more like "We don't have the cash to film this, so stick that news clip here". Very cheap looking.
Casting - Travolta hams it up a bit. No one looks like the historical character they play, minus the Castellano guy, who's in it for like 2 minutes. Stacy Keach is Stacy Keach, no real acting. It's like they said "How much for 15 minutes?". Good for you Stacy, get that cash.
Pruitt Taylor Vince - Horrible. I like the guy, but he tries an Italian accent for three lines, then just talks like a mid-Southerner. Hilarious in a bad way. He's in it for like 20 minutes.
The other characters are played by 4th string character actors doing bad, stereo typical acting. Just
. It's like they all called each other, and said "You want to get in this?".
The other extras look like they were cast out of whatever deli or high school was open.
Filming - Lots of tight jump cuts to hide the low budget and anachronisms. Yer not fooling anybody. Lots of empty streets, and empty club scenes. No budget for special effects. The big famous Gotti fireworks show is three duplicated stock footage scenes of the same red, white, and green rockets going off.
There's also a scene of a car bombing that looks like they just lit a puddle of gas on the front seats. Cropped real tight.
