Film Review – The Lennon Report

Movies have been made about The Beatles. They’ve been made about John Lennon’s assassin, Mark David Chapman. But rare is the film that actually recreates the shock of Lennon’s death, treating his passing with the mournfulness it deserves and the journalistic eagerness it inspired. “The Lennon Report” doesn’t bother with mimicry or philosophy, it strives to recapture the hours where Lennon was just another patient at Roosevelt Hospital, where his global celebrity was at first denied, quickly inspiring a game of secrecy between staff and reporters. The production doesn’t have the budget to fully recreate the era, but “The Lennon Report” comes through with an original vision for a dire subject matter, creating an interesting but flawed take on a ticking clock situation, with urgency tied to the dwindling heartbeat of a dying icon. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com