Review – Gotti

So this is what you get when you let the Gotti family decide what kind of movie to make about the Dapper Don and his “reformed” son. During the first act the story hops around in the timeline so often that I had to stop and read the Wikipedia page on John Gotti just to follow what was going on. Even when it settles down and tells a coherent story, the picture it paints is of a protagonist with a bad temper but a good heart. Of course to get to that viewpoint the production has to side step an epic amount of drug dealing, witness intimidation, jury tampering, murder, and so on and so on. The end product – particularly John Travolta’s performance in the lead – sits in that awful valley between “good” and “so bad it’s funny.” See if desperate