John Travolta in a scene from mobster biopic Gotti. The film has been widely panned by critics, earning a zero per cent score on Rotten Tomatoes Photo / Brian Douglas/Vertical Entertainment, via AP
John Travolta's latest film — a biopic about infamous New York mob boss John Gotti — has been given a shakedown by critics.
Gotti, which sees Travolta playing the titular lead character, has received a zero per cent score on review aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes.
Of the 23 write-ups from
professional critics so far collated, not one has deemed it worth seeing, delivering it a solid "rotten" rating.
It's rare for a movie to achieve such a wretched score; among others to have been similarly panned are Jaws: The Revenge, Return to the Blue Lagoon, National Lampoon's Gold Diggers and Look Who's Talking Now! — another Travolta film.
Gotti is told from the point-of-view of the protagonist's son, John Gotti Jr. (played by Spencer Rocco Lofranco), and charts the mobster's journey to becoming head of the powerful Gambino crime family. Travolta's real-life wife, Kelly Preston, also stars as Gotti's wife in the movie.
