Starring:
Jared Leto, Lindsay Lohan
Review:
Don’t hammer this film for trying to get inside the head of Mark
David Chapman before he shot John Lennon outside the rock legend’s
New York apartment on December 8th, 1980. Hammer it instead for
failing to do so with any depth or insight. It’s not that Jared
Leto, who gained nearly seventy pounds to play Chapman, doesn’t
attack the role with all he’s got. It’s that J.P. Schaefer’s film,
with Lindsay Lohan as another Lennon fan, has nothing to say.
Schaefer obsesses that Chapman met Lennon while carrying a copy of
J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, which ends at
Chapter 26. Did Chapman think of the murder as his ending to
Salinger’s Holden Caulfield saga? Such conjecture prompts just one
response: Thanks for nothing.

Rating: 1 Stars