hyped garbage

Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Chapter 27 stars Jared Leto as Mark David Chapman, the murderer of John Lennon. Recently, I've gotten more into the Beatles, Paul McCartney, and John Lennon himself. Everyone knows about the murder, but not the story behind it. Chapter 27 does a terrific job telling the story. The only Jared Leto movie I've ever really seen was Suicide Squad and, hate me as you will, I was pretty impressed. Jared does NOT disappoint in this movie. I've seen interviews with Chapman, and Leto completely nailed it. I never thought I'd say this, but Lindsay Lohan was really good! This movie is a true masterpiece. It may not be the complete truth, but it gives you the story. Jared Leto's Mark David Chapman feels like a real person, not a character. This is one of the best biopics I've ever seen. Chapter 27 isn't supposed to be fun or a good time...it's putting you into the mind of the sick-man that is Mark David Chapman. You listen to the tortured, obsessive, thoughts as he rambles on and on. The script is written terrifically. The editing really fits the story.John Lennon's murder is one of the saddest things I've ever heard, and I'll run you through it briefly: Mark David Chapman was abused as a kid. He turned to music to seek refuge from the real world. Who'd he listen to? The Beatles. He began to fantasize about having king-like power over a group of imaginary "little people" who lived in the walls of his bedroom. Over time, Chapman developed a series of obsessions, including the novel: The Catcher in the Rye, and the Beatles' front-man, John Lennon. Though Chapman idolized Lennon, he turned against The Beatles after becoming a Christian. He was angered at Lennon's comment saying that they were "more popular than Jesus.", a comment Lennon apologized for a few days later. Chapman also said that he had a hit list of people in mind, including David Bowie, Johnny Carson, Elizabeth Taylor, and more, but John Lennon seemed to be the easiest to find. Mark flew into New York in December 1980, intending to kill Lennon. Around 10:50 p.m., the Lennons' limousine returned to the Dakota, where they were staying. Lennon and Ono got out, passed Chapman and walked toward the entrance of the building. He softly called out "Mr. Lennon.", Chapman fired, and dropped into a crouched position. Five shots were fired from a .38 special revolver, four of which hit Lennon in the back and left shoulder, puncturing the left lung and left subclass artery. Chapman remained at the scene, reading The Catcher in the Rye, until the police arrived. John Winston Lennon was pronounced dead 11:07 p.m. at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center.The movie in no way glorifies Chapman. He is presented as the pathetic loser, as he actually was. Coincidentally, Mark Chapman plays John Lennon. No, this is not a joke. Chapter 27 won't meet everyone's taste. It accomplishes its job, a disturbing look into the life of Mark David Chapman.

Chapter 27 (2007) Runtime: 82 minutes Genre: Crime, dramaNo surprise that every John Lennon fan knows about Mark David Chapman. I'll come straight to the point, the movie was bleak, tedious and most of all highly predictable. The element of surprise was equal to nothing, the direction was weak and imprecise plot was very blunt and prolonged for no reason whatsoever. Chapter 27 would have made a hauntingly bereaving impact if it was a 20 to 30 minutes short movie.Director's exertion from start till end was to show the other side of the image, the happenings of Mark David Chapman but the back story was missing (probably not that important) but we needed to see why Mark David Chapman did what he did?Acting was good Jared Leto did a fine job playing Chapman apart from the fact that he had to put on extra 80 pounds to play the main character and for that, hats off to Mr. Leto for his ambitious and audacious effort put altogether though at some points I lost my focus and concentration because simply put Leto was too good to play the role but the movie was immensely hollow. The pace of the movie did not match the brilliance of Leto's talent as they were both moving in different parallel at a bad time."Overall a weak movie that had all the capabilities to become one of the finest.""A well placed 6/10"

This was not very good despite Jared Leto's amazing performance. He's probably the sole reason you might want to check this out. He totally committed to this role, gaining a gross amount of weight, so that he looked exactly like Mark David Chapman and acting the part so well, you'll forget its him.This is a docudrama of sorts and follows Chapman in the days leading up to infamous murder of former Beatle John Lennon. I'm not sure that I really gained any insight into his reasons for killing, just a quest for infamy and ultimately a mental collapse.The film sort of wanders and is strange but not in the way I think the director meant to achieve. Lindsay Lohan plays a devoted Beatles fan who befriends the killer and does a decent job.Curiously the actor listed in the credits who plays John Lennon is named Mark Chapman, which is the name of the guy that really killed him (only their middle name is different) wee-woo, wee-woo. Is that real or just supposed to mess with our minds? 04.11

***SPOILERS*** We get the whole story of the murder of the Beatles John Lennon played by Mark Lindsey Chapman, no relations Mark David Chapman, straight for the horses mouth the person convict of murdering him Mark David Chapman, Jared Leto,in his cell at the Attaca Correctional Facility in upstate New York. Chapman a fanatical Beatle fan was so obsessed with his hero John that he traveled all the way from his home in Hawaii to New York City, some 6,000 miles, just to meet him. Camped out in front of the Dakota Hotel on the upper West Side of Manhattan Chapman got to meet a number of like wise fanatical Beatles fans like himself including free lance photographer Paul Goresh, Judah Friedlander. It was Paul, the photographer not the member of the Beatles singing group, who was to take the famous photo of John signing Chapman's Beatles album, with a smiling Chapman in it, just hours before Chapman ended up blasting him.Why! Why! did Chapman do it! Even now Chapman can't quite explain his actions on that fateful night in Decembner 1980. It just seemed that he was so obsessed with John Lennon and when he finally got to meet him something clicked in his sick and disturbed mind that turned him into a homicidal lunatic. John for his part was very nice to Chapman asking him if he wanted him to write anything personal on the album cover that he signed for him which an almost speechless Chapman declined to have him do. That in itself showed how crazy as well as unstable Chapman was and, now 30 years after the crime, still is.Jared Leto's portrayal of Mark David Chapman was right on target. He even gained some 67 pounds, going from his normal 160 to over 220 pounds,to look like him. Chapman was also obsessed with the underground 1960's J.D Salinger novel "Catcher in the Rye" that together with the Holy Bible Chapman was alway carried and was seen thumbing through throughout the movie. In fact it was "Catcher in the Rye" that Chapman was reading when the police nabbed him in front of the Dakota Hotel after he gunned down his hero John Lennon! We'll never really known, I don't think that even the very obviously psychotic Chapman knows, what motivated Chapman to commit the horrendous crime that he did. The guy wasn't that mentally stable to begin with in the first place. And when he finally met the person whom he was obsessed in meeting all these years something snapped in the poor guy's head that turned him into the monster that he became!P.S Check out the now very troubled Lindsey Lohan as Jude one of the John Lennon and Beatles fans outside the Dakota Hotel. Lohan is now in the process, besides getting bailed out of prison, of making a film about the late Hollywood glamor queen Elizabeth Taylor. In a number of the head on shots of Lohan in the movie she, at age 19 and 20, looked far more glamorous as well as cute and drop dead gorgeous then Elizabeth Taylor ever did at the very height of her motion picture career!