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On Dec. 8, 1980, John Lennon is shot outside of the Dakota apartment building in New York City, and emergency personnel have no idea that the victim will turn out to be the world's biggest rock star. The movie focuses on the efforts of police officers, nurses and emergency doctors racing to save Lennon’s life at New York’s Roosevelt Hospital.
"The Lennon Report" offers no special insights into Lennon, or the country, or that awful night, but it does bring back the time. It looks and feels like 1980.
What hampers The Lennon Report are its austere budget -- we're told that 1980 is an especially violent year in New York, yet the hospital is all but deserted -- and its occasionally sub-par acting.
Dramatic recreation of the night John Lennon was murdered matter-of-factly recalls a dirtier, less tourist-friendly New York City and an era when bad news was no surprise.
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.
Despite the admittedly unique angle, this ambitious drama gets crushed under the considerable weight of its artistic, as well as budgetary, limitations.