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The Killing of John Lennon (2006) 6.2
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Metascore: 49/100
Reviews: 27 user | 30 critic | 10 from Metacritic.com A dramatization of Mark Champman's plan to murder John Lennon. Director:Andrew PiddingtonWriter:Andrew Piddington |
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A dramatization of Mark Champman's plan to murder John Lennon.
Plot Keywords:
john lennon | murder | telephone call | autograph | what happened to epilogue |Taglines:
I was nobody until I killed the biggest somebody on earth.Parents Guide:
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Country:
UKLanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
7 December 2007 (UK) See more »Also Known As:
John Lennon meggyilkolása See more »Filming Locations:
Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington, London, England, UKBox Office
Opening Weekend:
$3,077 (USA) (4 January 2008)Gross:
$6,672 (USA) (18 January 2008)Company Credits
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Performed by Tina Charles
Written by Jack Robinson / James Bolden
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When Chapman is riding in a taxi at the start of his first trip to New York, he is driven through Times Square signpost for Wicked, Hairspray and Mamma Mia can be seen. These were not on Broadway, or anywhere else until the 2000s. See more »Soundtracks
"I Love To Love"Performed by Tina Charles
Written by Jack Robinson / James Bolden
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Another dramatized crime-biography on the mental state of Mark David Chapman, this one financed by the UK. Jonas Ball gives a fearless portrayal of the overweight sociopath Chapman who, at just twenty-five years of age, felt so isolated from the rest of the world he began to fantasize about killing a celebrity. Gunning down someone famous--in this case, former-Beatle John Lennon--would be Chapman's ticket to immortality, turning him into a prophet, a savior. No matter what amount of style or technical grace a film culled from this material can hope to maintain, the subject matter itself is off-putting; here, despite finesse behind the camera, the results are also distasteful on occasion. In the realm of a dramatization (with actors playing Lennon and wife Yoko Ono), it is therefore quite strange and queasy to see so much footage of the real John Lennon on display...and not just pictured amongst real-life headlines, but actual newsreel footage of the musician. One assumes writer-director Andrew Piddington was hoping to show a portrait of the victim as well as of his killer, but when the filmmaker stages the murder scene--with bullets bursting through Lennon's chest in slow-motion--one has their doubts that anybody here had their priorities in the right place. The film is doggedly audacious, with authentic location footage mixed in with quasi-introspective and 'revealing' voice-overs by Ball as Chapman, which are often chilling but inherently suspect, serving no particular purpose. Complete with flashbacks, flash-forwards, flights-of-fancy, and quotes from Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye", one gets the feeling Piddington was trying to one-up "Taxi Driver" and its protagonist Travis Bickle (whom Chapman also quotes). The director certainly has done his movie-homework and knows many camera-angles and narrative tricks. Yet his picture is as soulless as Chapman, and it leaves the audience with little except the busy, intriguing intersection of an urban American city and a man lost on its outskirts. ** from ****