Mobsters regularly face worse than a hail of rotten tomatoes, but John Travolta’s screen portrayal of the New York City crime boss John Gotti has taken quite a pelting.
The film, directed by Kevin Connolly, has scored a rare zero on the well-known review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes.
Gotti also stars Travolta’s wife, Kelly Preston, in the role of his screen wife, Victoria.
The verdict of the New York Times critic was uncompromising: “That the long-gestating crime drama Gotti is a dismal mess comes as no surprise.