Gutsycurene Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

ActuallyGlimmer The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

grantss Surprisingly good. Surprising that, despite starring Lindsay Lohan, it is good.Explores the days and hours leading up to the murder of John Lennon, as seen from the perspective of his killer, Mark David Chapman. Much time is spent examining Chapman's mindset, and his obsession with the book "The Catcher in the Rye". Pretty good acting by Jared Leto as Chapman. Even Lindsay Lohan is OK here.Pacing and editing of the movie is excellent. It could easily have gotten bogged down in pretentious navel-gazing and ended 30+ minutes longer, but moves along smoothly and doesn't overstay its welcome.

screenchills Mark David Chapman had very little self worth or reason to live in his mind. After traveling the world and ending up in a paradise (Hawaii), he experiences joy only in small rushes, and can only remark on a short period of meaningful moments in his life, when he helped Vietnamese children. Now he's grabbing at old obsessions, becoming Holden Caulfield, out to kill the most famous "phony" that he knows because his existence has to change drastically in some way. As for the film, I feel it succeeds in what it tries to do, make you feel anxious, awkward, lonely and somewhat sick to the stomach as Chapman certainly was. I feel it's helpful to relive sad stories once in a while and to grieve for your own losses in those moments of reflection. That's how I felt when I watched this and I ended up revisiting Lennon's great solo work, tearing up and telling myself, his peaceful, loving messages must live on some way in my life.

Desertman84 Chapter 27 is a film that depicts the murder of John Lennon.It involves the story of assassin,Mark David Chapman during the days leading into the said event.Jared Leto stars in the film as Chapman.He was committed in the role ala Robert DeNiro in Raging Bull by gaining 67 pounds to match the real Chapman's physically.Added to that,he also tried his best to provide the viewers what's inside the psyche of the man behind the murderer particularly his obsession on J.D. Salinger's novel entitled "Catcher In The Rye" especially on its theme about the insincerity and inauthenticity of the adult world in which he found in the ex- Beatle.Lindsay Lohan co-stars in this film written and directed by Jarrett Schaefer that was based on based on the book Let Me Take You Down by Jack Jones.Leto did a wonderful job playing as Chapman.The viewer will definitely be impressed with his characterization especially when he impressed upon the person watching this film that he is psychologically impaired especially when Chapman totally assumed Holden Caulfield and the events that are happening in his life towards his assassination of John Lennon as being eerily similar to the events of Salinger's novel.While there is nothing I can say negative about Leto's performance,too bad that the movie was far from interesting and compelling as there parts that were somewhat draggy and boring.Also,we never really fully discover influence and reason behind the psyche of Chapman as we only get to see his acts of lies and deceit only during the last days leading to the death of Lennon.In the end,watch the movie for Leto's performance alone.

max-saunders this film is very hard to review. i watched it because i think Jared Leto is a very good actor and i was fascinated by the story of the murder of John Lennon as i have heard of the name Mark David Chapman so many times in my life.. overall this film has very bad reviews but i think people don't like it because the film itself has sympathy for Mark David Chapman. i think that this film was a disturbing and unnerving account of the lead up to John Lennon's death and i thought it was quite good. Jared Leto's performance for me is outstanding in this film and was one of the reasons why i kept my eye on the screen, without Leto this film wouldn't have fascinated me as much. as a piece in itself its pretty good the dialogue is OK and the directing is alright but nothing special.i would possibly see this film again but only because of Leto's performance. if you like Leto see this film. it is quite fascinating but the film is very dark and very disturbing more so than i expected. the film really makes you visualise how this man killed John Lennon and how he was just a complete psychopath. but this film doesn't answer the question why because there is no answer to why John Lennon was murdered. i would rate this film 6.5-7 out of 10. its good but nothing special.