John Gotti, un truand à abattre

I know that Lorraine Bracco is supposed to be giving a "gutsy" performance in this but overall, all she does is stomp around the screen and shout at people. It's almost laughable at times.

I also got confused at the first part of the movie, Lorraine Bracco's character shows up for work on her first day in the DA's office and in the next scene two years have gone past.

The rest of the movie isn't actually that bad, It's not factual or anything but it is interesting to get a view in the mafia and legal worlds. It's a shame that Lorraine Bracco ruins the movie with her awful performance.

The biggest problem I saw with this made for television movie about John Gotti, is that Anthony John Denison looks nothing like him. I saw a guy on a Tropicana commercial who looked more like Gotti, than he did. If you're going to make any movie about a high profile figure, please, choose an actor who looks the part, not just has a big name. For example, if you were to choose between John Vernon, and Luke Perry for the role of Herrmann Goering,...isn't the choice obvious?

I liked it. Straight to the point. Saw it back in the day just saw it recently again.

Lorraine Bracco spends about twenty years of her prosecutorial career trying to take down the Gambino crime family, and John Gotti, who dominates her neighborhood of Ozone Park.

I have a friend who grew lived as a child in Ozone Park in the 1970s and 1980s, and everyone knew what was going on, but could do nothing about it. This 'view from the top' movie shows Miss Bracco in conference with dozens of old, fat government men, and finally at trial. The production tries to keep a cold tone, despite occasionally swooping camera shots in the court room and dark organ music, but the result is that it looks like a superficial effort, concentrating more on showing Miss Bracco as tightly wound than on anything that seems to bear on the actual issues. There is no effort made to make clear the impact of these crimes; a man who runs a fruit store complains of paying protection; a thief who comes to Tony Denison, who plays Gotti, with a cut that's not large enough, is beaten; but there's no overt showing of harm to the public, just an impassioned speech by Miss Bracco in which she complains that people think of Gotti when it comes to Italians, and not Verdi.

It was pretty kewl. Saw it back in the day watching again.