Review of Chapter 27 (2007) by Dollz L — 18 Apr 2008

Quite a strange film, Chapter 27 tells the story of the days leading up to John Lennon's murder at the hands of Mark David Chapman. Jared Leto (in is now infamous weight gaining role) is very good as Chapman.

By no means is it a great history making performance, but it is good. If the film has one big flaw, and it does, the film feels like only a piece of a much larger story, it is, but I felt that to understand Chapman and why he did what he did we need so much more.

Or if not to understand him at least to get some faint grasp of who this man was. We get a small image in the film, but it felt like the climax of a much larger story. Still it is worth seeing for what it is and for Leto's performance, also good is Judah Friedlander in a small supporting role, and Lindsay Lohan, surprisingly, isn't so bad herself (she gets the job done in a small amount of screen time).

Works as a very small study of the thin line between a obsessive fan or someone who is really dangerous.