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Summary: Enter the world of the COSA NOSTRA
Review: Excellent because of it's reality, this movie takes you to John Gotti's life. He was a New York gangster who was a chief in the Gambino family. Seeking fame, John Gotti arranged the murder of the head of the family, and didn't hide it from the public. Assante accurately portrays Gotti in his 2,000 dollar suits, avoiding the government, helping the needy, and gathering a community to stand behind him. Loved by all, John Gotti was ratted out by Sammy Gravano, excellently portrayed by William Forsythe. Great direction and acting. Harmon shows the struggle of the FBI and that of the mafia, and their similarity. Portraying Gotti as no one ever has, this video pleases the mind because of it's reality. A few years ago, you may have passed John Gotti on 79th street. This is a movie about a real person, and that is what makes it great.
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Summary: Gotti= Uplifting?
Review: Gotti seems to have gone down viewers throats well with the lies and fiction told. To be bold, it is all fiction! It makes Gotti look like the pope. Or so it tries to! However, the only reason this can even get a one is because of the actor's excellent ability in such a poor and bleak script! However, this may only be because I have seen so many mafia flicks before and know the good and bad! So, if you want to watch it it is your choice. However, be prepared for hogwash!!
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Summary: brilliant
Review: gotti the movie is a concise,brilliantly put together if not altoghether historically correct adaptation of the dapper dons life.the scene that depicts sammy gravano killing favaro is totally incorrect.the acting is quite excellent,especially for a t.v moovie and the directing is top-drawer stuff.this movie can be watched repeatedly.
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Summary: Outstanding
Review: Gotti was an extrordinary movie that captures my attention more every time I watch it. Knowing mafia history, there are a lot of things that happened in the movie that did not happen in the real life saga of John Gotti. With that aside the movie and its actors were wonderful. Assante and Quinn were made for these parts, and Forsythe was not bad himself. As far as an actor that can play a mafia role, Assante is up there with the likes of Deniro and Pesci.
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Summary: Great movie, a must see!!!
Review: Great movie that depicts the life of john gotti wondefully. I have read a few bio's on gotti and this movie gets at every aspect of his life. Armand Assante does a wonderful job of playing gotti. This movie is a must see for everyone who is a fan of mafia movies!!! 100000 STARS!!!!
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Summary: John Gotti is the man.
Review: Great story that depicted the life of John Gotti...done excellently by John Gotti, even has some of your other typical mobster actors in the movie...LOVED it!!!
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Summary: A Friend of Ours
Review: I am a big fan of mafia movies and have seen at least 20 or more Mafia movies and this is my favorite over the classic. The lead actor does a great job playing Gotti and the other actors aren't too shabby either. The story is mostly true and is great drama. This isn't an action movie though, so don't expect gun fights and ect, but if your looking for a really interestting and compelling Mafia story I highly recommend you see this movie.
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Summary: My Favorite Mafia Movie
Review: I am a big fan of mafia movies and have seen at least 20 or more Mafia movies and this is my favorite over the classic. The lead actor does a great job playing Gotti and the other actors aren't too shabby either. The story is mostly true and is great drama. This isn't an action movie though, so don't expect gun fights and ect, but if your looking for a really interestting and compelling Mafia story I highly recommend you see this movie.
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Summary: GOTTI? where i dont see him?
Review: i first reconized gotti as the boss of Sammy "The bull" Gravano, i have been doing alot of reading on the man, found him (gravano) intresting. it seems that Gotti, in the movie, is glamorized alot more then should be. every one likes the arogant bast***, but really he was the boss of the most pwerful "Mafia" family in new york he didnt get there from kissing butt okay? he got there from Killing ppl who "upset" him. inculding his own boss, Big paul. i have to say is i am a big Cosa Nostra fan but truely i am DANG NEAR sure this isnt the person who he really was. I dunno about any other movies or books (other then Gravano's book "underboss" wich is REALLY good but then again its in his words, he isnt gonna make himself look that bad) on him because i have only started my reseach and i am more focused on Gravano but u might like "Gotti" but keep in mind this isnt an acurate portrayal of the man.
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Summary: decent acting, but complete fiction
Review: I give the movie 2 stars because I think Armande Aassante did a decent job portraying Gotti (although he wasn't ruthless enough, I'm sure he just did what he was told) the guy who played Sammy G was good too but his height was totally off (the real Sammy was shorter than Gotti). All that aside, the movie was complete fiction. Although this movie painted a favourable picture of Gotti, I think Gotti himself would have disliked it because it was so off. Major and minor facts in this movie are completely off. A few examples.. This movie shows Gotti meeting Sammy when Carlo Gambino was boss, and Gotti went to Carlo's apartment where he met Sammy and was ordered to do the hit in retaliation for Carlo's nephew's kidnapping. In reality, Sammy wasn't even associated with the Gambino family until after Carlo died.. before that, he was in the columbo family and he switched to the gambino family because of an internal dispute.. He was made under Paul Castellano, as was Gotti. Aside from that, it would be highly irregular for an unmade man to meet the Boss at all, let alone at his house.. Unmade men are required to communicate with the boss through the made guy that vouches for them. Also, Sammy had only met Carlo once, and that was just briefly at a party. Another major error was Gotti's relationship with Angie after Angie got caught on tape and brought major heat on his whole crew for the drug charges.. After that happened and Gotti gained power he wanted to whack Angie out, but people clsoe to Gotti strongly advised him against it. Gotti NEVER went to see Angie in the hospital when he had cancer, despite the fact that he'd known him since they were kids. Gotti took away all Angie's power, and Angie died alone and with no dignitiy. Gotti wouldn't have even gone to the funeral if other people in the family didn't drag him there to keep up appearances. I think the real Gotti would have been angry with the way they showed his relationship with Angie, he told everyone of his discontent with Angie after the tapes. There are many many major and minor fact and timeline glitches that make this movie frusterating to watch if you are familiar with the real events/timelines. I see NO reason at all for getting these details wrong, it could have been ever more of an interesting movie if they would have stuck to the facts and put in different aspects of the story. They could have shown more of the courtroom drama that led to his "Teflon Don" reputation. Some of the aspects of the trial Giacalone brought against him were really classic, and completely out there ... I could go on and on.. This movie is one case where hollywood has no justification for having their facts totally off.
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