John Travolta’s ‘Gotti’ Scores Zero Percent on Rotten Tomatoes
Three other Travolta movies also have the same score
Brian Welk | June 15, 2018 @ 3:05 PM
Last Updated: June 15, 2018 @ 3:23 PM
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John Travolta’s new movie “Gotti” hit rock bottom faster than a cinderblock tied to a body being thrown into a river.
“Gotti” has scored a zero percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes from film critics, a rare feat managed by only a few dozen movies. At the time of this writing, only 17 reviews have been counted for the film, so the film’s fortune could change. But, as of now, all reviews of the Travolta film are currently are rotten.
“That the long-gestating crime drama Gotti is a dismal mess comes as no surprise. What does shock is just how multifaceted a dismal mess it is,” Glenn Kenny wrote in his New York Times review.
“He may have been a murderer, but even Gotti deserved better than this,” Brian Tallerico says at RogerEbert.com.
While “Gotti” is currently listed as the lowest rated film of Travolta’s career, this is the fourth movie under his filmography to get saddled with a goose egg aka zero score, including his last scored film “Life on the Line” from 2016, “Look Who’s Talking Now” from 1993 and “Staying Alive,” which came out in 1983. The notoriously awful “Battlefield Earth” has a paltry 3 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. (Rotten Tomatoes debuted in 1998. Movies that came out before that are scored retroactively, often based on newer reviews, written years after rated films entered theaters.)
“Gotti” is directed by Kevin Connolly of “Entourage” fame and is a biopic about the life of Italian-American mobster John Gotti and his son. It also stars Stacy Keach, Kelly Preston and Spencer Rocco Lofranco as John Gotti Jr. Lem Dobbs and Leo Rossi wrote the screenplay.
The film played at Cannes back in May and received the same unanimously negative reaction from critics at the festival. “Gotti” is a passion project of Travolta’s that dates back to 2011. In late 2017, Lionsgate pulled the film from their schedule 10 days before it was set to hit theaters and sold it back to the production company Emmett/Furla/Oasis Films.
“Gotti” opens today in 503 theaters across North America.
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"Gotti" made headlines this year when it got a zero percent score on Rotten Tomatoes -- but there are worse films out there. Click through TheWrap's gallery of worst reviewed films of all time on RT, ranked by number of reviews.
Sony
"Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever" (2002)
# of Reviews: 117
Tomatometer: 0
Cast: Antonio Banderas, Lucy Liu
What It's About: An FBI agent and a rogue DIA agent are tasked to kill each other, but they soon realize they aren't each other's biggest enemy.
What Critics Said: AV Club's Keith Phipps said it "looks like a video-game promo," while Associated Press' Jocelyn Noveck asked, "Why am I sitting here, anyway?"
Warner Bros.
"One Missed Call" (2008)
# of Reviews: 80
Tomatometer: 0
Cast: Shannyn Sossamon, Edwards Burns
What It's About: People start receiving calls from their future selves -- with details of their deaths.
What Critics Said: Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Bob Longino said the film was "one big miss of a horror movie," while Toronto Star's Philip Marchand said the best part about the movie is that it is "mercifully short."
Warner Bros.
"A Thousand Words" (2012)
# of Reviews: 56
Tomatometer: 0
Cast: Eddie Murphy, Kerry Washington, Allison Janney
What It's About: A literary agent finds a Bodhi tree on his property which is shaped by the consequences of every word he speaks.
What Critics Said: We Got This Covered critic Kristal Cooper simply wrote, "Try two words: stay away." Meanwhile The National's James Luxford wrote, "a poorly conceived and startling miscast comedy."
Paramount Pictures
"Pinocchio" (2002)
# of Reviews: 54
Tomatometer: 0
Cast: Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi
What It's About: A wooden puppet disregards advice from the Blue Fairy and his father and goes on one adventure after another.
What Critics Said: Chicago Reader's Jonathan Rosenbaum said the film was "truly awful," while L.A. Weekly's Dan Fienberg said, "Visually sumptuous but intellectually stultifying."
Miramax
"Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2" (2004)
# of Reviews: 45
Tomatometer: 0
Cast: Jon Voight, Scott Baio
What It's About: Media moguls try to crack the code to baby talk, while the babies of the world try to stop them.
What Critics Said: The Wall Street Journal's Joanne Kaufman wrote, "unspeakably ghastly," while Chicago Reader's J. R. Jones simply said "excruciating."
Triumph Films
"Gotti" (2018)
# of Reviews: 44
Tomatometer: 0
Cast: John Travolta, Kelly Preston
What It's About: It's the story about crime boss John Gotti and his son.
What Critics Said: New York Post's Johnny Oleksinski wrote bluntly: "I'd rather wake up next to a severed horse head than ever watch 'Gotti' again."
Vertical Entertainment
"National Lampoon's Gold Diggers" (2004)
# of Reviews: 44
Tomatometer: 0
Cast: Will Friedle, Chris Owen
What It's About: Two losers marry two elderly sisters, hoping they'll inherit their fortune.
What Critics Said: Washington Post's Jen Chaney said the film was "stupefyingly hideous," while Seattle Times' Erik Lundegaard begged people to not "waste your money."
P& Releasing
"Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star" (2011)
# of Reviews: 35
Tomatometer: 0
Cast: Nick Swardson, Christina Ricci
What It's About: A kid from the midwest moves to Hollywood to become a porn star.
What Critics Said: Time Out's Matt Singer described the film as "dire" and "soul-crushing," while Newsday's Rafer Guzman said it was "icky and repellent."
Columbia Pictures
"The Ridiculous 6" (2015)
# of Reviews: 35
Tomatometer: 0
Cast: Adam Sandler, Taylor Lautner, Rob Schneider
What It's About: When an outlaw raised by Native Americans realizes he has five half-brothers, they all band together to find their dad.
What Critics Said: "Thanks for nothing, Netflix," is what Chicago Sun-Times critic Richard Roeper wrote. TheWrap's own Debbie Day added that the film is "everything wrong with Hollywood for the past two decades."
Netflix
"Dark Crimes" (2018)
# of Reviews: 34
Tomatometer: 0
Cast: Jim Carrey, Martin Csokas, Charlotte Gainsbourg
What It's About: Clues to a murder of a businessman are laid out in a book about a similar crime.
What Critics Said: New York Post's Johnny Oleksinski said "that this exercise in vulgarity was made at all is shameful," while Chicago Sun-Times' Richard Roeper said the film "leaves a sour taste."
Saban Films
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