Chapter 27

Starring: Jared Leto, Lindsay Lohan, Judah Friedlander, Ursula Abbott, Jeane Fournier

Directed by: Jarrett Schaeffer

RS: 1.5of 4 Stars Average User Rating: 3of 4 Stars

2008 Peace Arch Films Historical

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.

PETER TRAVERS

(Posted: Apr 3, 2008)

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Haven't seen it but it needs a quick re-edit. At end of movie, Lindsay Lohan should be flummoxed when informed Lennon did not receive proper Christian burial. She could say, "Then he's going to hell."
Would need a redo with Kubrick-style treatment about "The Ballad of John and Yoko" deportation struggle with the hit sprung out of "YMCA" by a Bible beating rump thumper at dawn of the city on the hill of the Reagan era. Telling the story true would angry up the audience. No theatre would show "Chapter and Verse: The Story Of Mark." I'm still waiting for "The Life of Brian" to turn up on my TIVO.

Mar 29, 2008 19:53:57

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