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| Sep 30, 2008Cinema Blend
In his latest movie, Chapter 27 , Leto gets fat and explores his inner crazy, all while speaking in a strangely stilted southern accent.
Although the movie has a few great moments, it doesn't really go anywhere.
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| Apr 03, 2008Just Jared
Schaefer and Leto deserve praise for technically making a wonderful movie
Chapter 27" is as tasteful and as accurate as any movie on Mark David Chapman is ever going to get.
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| Mar 28, 2008Cinema Blend
Even Leto, who saves the film from Chapter 11 with his notable performance, is likely to walk away with nothing more than a bad case of the gout.
Of course, the filmmakers were tiptoeing around making such a notorious killer seem mildly sympathetic, but it wouldn't have hurt anyone's memory to give us a little character development.
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| Mar 28, 2008Entertainment Weekly
Chapter 27 is far from flawless, but Leto disappears inside this angry
Chapter 27 mirrors the three-day span of The Catcher in the Rye , the novel Chapman regards as his assassin's handbook.
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| Mar 28, 2008Premiere Magazine
Visually ugly, morally non-existent and a complete black hole in the departments of insight and wit, Chapter 27 is quite possibly the most godawful, irredeemable film to yet emerge in the 21st century.
In the most repellent scene, he meets little Sean Lennon and his governess.
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| Mar 27, 2008Boxoffice Magazine
Unfortunately, their relationship, like the film itself, goes nowhere and does nothing to make this more than a rather pedantic one-dimensional look into the mind of a very sick person.
Finally getting a limited U.S. release after spinning its wheels in foreign markets and on the festival circuit (beginning at Sundance 2007), should quickly disappear from theatres and head for the shelves.
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| Jan 28, 2007Cinematical
I repeat that sentence because it perfectly encapsulates my own opinion on the deadly dull and seriously dreary Chapter 27 , a movie that promises to offer some insight into why Mark David Chapman, on one chilly night in 1980
For the record, Friedlander delivers the only interesting line in the whole movie while Lohan wisely underplays her skimpily-written role.
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| Dec 08, 1980Indiantelevision.com, India
Watch Jared Leto at his best in Chapter 27. ... Full Review
| Dec 01, 1980Austin Chronicle
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The Land of Eric
The film takes us on a wearying, tedious journey through the last few days before Chapman shoots Lennon, telling us nothing about anything in the process.
played by a pre-meltdown Lindsay Lohan, are mildly diverting for a minute or two; mostly they serve to break up the monotony of an otherwise listless film.
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