Stoutor It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

Bergorks If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

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.

museumofdave Many viewers seem to want to blame the director of this film for shooting John Lennon all over again, or emphasize that former sigh-guy Leto put on 80 pounds to inhabit the slovenly, corpulent body of Mark David Chapman and to no avail Those of us who lived through the Beatles, who admired them, were horrified by what seemed to be an inexplicable killing--and wanted explanations, as we want to understand the killing of a beloved celebrity or a president.As depicted in this film, the twisted psyche of this killer is not revealed--as as Friday says in Dragnet, we just get the facts, which are vivid enough to give us some idea of the weird hallucinations that went on in the mind of a killer obsessed with one of the most influential men on the planet. Since you know how this story is bound to end, you only might want to watch it if you want to see an acting tour-de-force or get some notion of what kind of sickness infested the man who called himself Holden. This film is not a cheerer-upper, and doesn't offer the usual voyeuristic excitements, but it seems sincere and well-assembled and Leto deserves credit for not wanting always to be The Dreamboat Guy.

sol ***SPOILERS*** We get the whole story of the murder of the Beatles John Lennon played by Mark Lindsey Chapman, no relations Mark David Chapman, straight for the horses mouth the person convict of murdering him Mark David Chapman, Jared Leto,in his cell at the Attaca Correctional Facility in upstate New York. Chapman a fanatical Beatle fan was so obsessed with his hero John that he traveled all the way from his home in Hawaii to New York City, some 6,000 miles, just to meet him. Camped out in front of the Dakota Hotel on the upper West Side of Manhattan Chapman got to meet a number of like wise fanatical Beatles fans like himself including free lance photographer Paul Goresh, Judah Friedlander. It was Paul, the photographer not the member of the Beatles singing group, who was to take the famous photo of John signing Chapman's Beatles album, with a smiling Chapman in it, just hours before Chapman ended up blasting him.Why! Why! did Chapman do it! Even now Chapman can't quite explain his actions on that fateful night in Decembner 1980. It just seemed that he was so obsessed with John Lennon and when he finally got to meet him something clicked in his sick and disturbed mind that turned him into a homicidal lunatic. John for his part was very nice to Chapman asking him if he wanted him to write anything personal on the album cover that he signed for him which an almost speechless Chapman declined to have him do. That in itself showed how crazy as well as unstable Chapman was and, now 30 years after the crime, still is.Jared Leto's portrayal of Mark David Chapman was right on target. He even gained some 67 pounds, going from his normal 160 to over 220 pounds,to look like him. Chapman was also obsessed with the underground 1960's J.D Salinger novel "Catcher in the Rye" that together with the Holy Bible Chapman was alway carried and was seen thumbing through throughout the movie. In fact it was "Catcher in the Rye" that Chapman was reading when the police nabbed him in front of the Dakota Hotel after he gunned down his hero John Lennon! We'll never really known, I don't think that even the very obviously psychotic Chapman knows, what motivated Chapman to commit the horrendous crime that he did. The guy wasn't that mentally stable to begin with in the first place. And when he finally met the person whom he was obsessed in meeting all these years something snapped in the poor guy's head that turned him into the monster that he became!P.S Check out the now very troubled Lindsey Lohan as Jude one of the John Lennon and Beatles fans outside the Dakota Hotel. Lohan is now in the process, besides getting bailed out of prison, of making a film about the late Hollywood glamor queen Elizabeth Taylor. In a number of the head on shots of Lohan in the movie she, at age 19 and 20, looked far more glamorous as well as cute and drop dead gorgeous then Elizabeth Taylor ever did at the very height of her motion picture career!

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.