Get Gotti: Le parrain doit tomber

Gotti's crew want to be in his favor. Law enforcement want the prestige of being the ones who catch him. Prosecutors want the prestige of being the ones who convict him. Reporters want the prestige of being the ones invited to his parties - more concerned with being seen with him than covering him.

Everyone in the documentary seems to gleefully tell everyone how they were connected to him, whether they were for or against him. The filmmakers could've done more to explain how bad Gotti was. How mob members, neighborhood residents, law enforcement and the legal system were all in a cult-like infatuation with him. Instead it seems they're in the cult, too. It's almost a glorification of the guy.

The end result is you fell like you're watching people talk about that time they once met the cousin of Elvis Presley's barber's dog sitter.

I assume you did ... as did I ... and I will stick to my no pun intended saying, claiming my innocence ... speaking of which: this brings us to Gotti ... who got acquitted a lot ... as in Jurys not finding him guilty for obvious crimes ... how that happened? Well this show is here to give us an insight to the rise and eventual fall of Gotti (everyone gets a reality check sooner or later).

The romanticizing of the Mafia and mobsters is quite common ... I reckon movies and other media outlets had a hand to play in that. If you see someone like Gotti (even my mom was like "he is so well dressed") ... there is a connection you want to build. Well this will be a deconstruction of that as much as possible.

Great interviews with surviving members - from both sides ... and a great look into what happened and how Gotti got away with so much stuff for so long ... which made him think he is invincible apparently ... kind of like Denzels character in Training Day, even though he obviously portrayed a cop ... if you are into docu series ... this is quite a good one.

Netflix's Get Gotti (2023) is a slickly produced docuseries that dives into the rise and fall of John Gotti, the Teflon Don with a flair for the dramatic. Equal parts history lesson and crime thriller, it walks the fine line between admiration and indictment, showing how Gotti's larger-than-life personality made him both a media darling and a federal headache.

The pacing is sharp, the interviews are juicy, and the archival footage reminds us why Gotti was the gangster who wouldn't quit-until he did. It's got all the mob lore, courtroom drama, and wiretap paranoia you'd expect, wrapped in a binge-worthy package.

Is it groundbreaking? Not exactly. But it's a polished, engaging watch that understands its subject's mythos. If you like your true crime with a dash of old-school swagger and a pinch of federal persistence, Get Gotti is a hit worth taking.

Most of this portrayed Gotti as a fashion model instead of what he really was: an uneducated half-wit and murderous thug. He had a man tortured and murdered because Gotti's idiot son was killed riding a moped in the streets. The mafia are nothing more than bullies who gang up on individuals. They are jackals who produce nothing and live off of the sweat of others.

Most of the people in this series had nothing but good to say about the creep, even some of the law enforcement types. Why would an FBI agent congratulate Gotti after one of his acquittals? The news people covering the cases were equally as obsequious and heavy with praise for this low-life.

Overall, this was poorly done and adds nothing new to the story.

Well made and perfectly watchable but little more than an overview of the main events and certainly doesn't contain anything that hasn't been covered before in multiple docs and books before, often with a lot more info and context. In particular no mention of the fact there was at least one credible mob attempt to kill him after the Castellano hit, nothing about his son being run over and killed in 1980 (and the subsequent 'disappearance' of the driver), and nothing about perhaps the most absurd/arrogant murder attributed to him and caught on the ravenite tapes; having an underling 'whacked' for missing a couple of meetings!!