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A film about Mark David Chapman in the days leading up to the infamous murder of Beatle John Lennon.
Leave your thoughts about Chapter 27.
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanChapter 27 is far from flawless, but Leto disappears inside this angry, mouth-breathing psycho geek with a conviction that had me hanging on his every delusion. |
| EricDSnider.comEric D. SniderThe film manages to be entirely about Mark David Chapman without saying a single insightful thing about him. |
| PopMattersCynthia Fuchs"I hate the movies. They're phony, so goddamned phony." Poor Mark David Chapman: no matter how many times he rejects the world of celebrity and phoniness, he's dragged back inside. |
| Miami HeraldRene RodriguezThere are cheesy special effects and even cheesier gags, and the schmaltz eventually piles on neck-deep. |
| OregonianMarc MohanIf [director] Schaefer's intent was to provide some sort of insight into Chapman's character, some hint of explanation for this senseless tragedy, he fails, probably because there's none to be found beyond one lonely guy's addled brain chemistry. |
| San Francisco ChronicleJoel SelvinThe film is impressively mounted and Schaefer has made a directorial debut of distinction, but it is an uncomfortable ride from the opening scenes of Chapman arriving in New York to the inevitable, inexorable final scene. |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyA failed attempt to probe dramatically the inner workings of the troubled mind of John Lennon's assassin in a chronicle replete with shallow Freudian observations about delusion and paranoia. |
| New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierLeto's drawling, blotchy, creepy performance sets it apart. |
| New York TimesMatt Zoller SeitzAny film that dares attempt a nonjudgmental portrait of John Lennon's assassin would most likely be accused of tastelessness, but in the case of Chapter 27 the charges are justified. |
| TV GuideMaitland McDonaghThe film's 85 minutes drag by painfully slowly, because there's no respite from Chapman's tedious, self-pitying reveries. |