"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," declares Premiere''s Glenn Kenny. "This inverted vanity project of pretty-boy actor [Jared] Leto (he co-executive produces as well as stars), for which he packed on seventy pounds in order to portray John Lennon murderer Mark David Chapman, tries to take the viewer inside the head of the obsessive assassin. As it happens, that''s a pretty empty place."

Ed Gonzalez in the Voice: "Making the Fincherian The Killing of John Lennon seem like the masterpiece Zodiac wasn''t, this misbegotten psychological portrait eagerly foregrounds Leto''s excess blubber and histrionic blather, delivered like bad improv outside the Dakota building - ''home of the great and powerful,'' as per Chapman, clearly oblivious that Rex Reed also lives inside".

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