Couldn't help thinking 'What's the point?'

In terms of the movie itself, the filmmakers did their homework, as the dialogue was taken verbatim from transcripts of interviews with Chapman. There was little backstory about Chapman, as the film starts off in the last few months leading up to the assassination with only a few, brief flashes to his formative years.

I suppose the larger question I had after watching it was why was it even worth the bother? Frankly, there's nothing in the film that couldn't have been learned by seeing documentaries and reading books about the event, with quite a bit more insight as well, rather than a film version of the killing.

This isn't to say I'd support a banning or boycott of the film. People should be as free to make it as others are to either see or not see it. In the end, I left the movie with impressions I had before seeing it intact. Those being a) Lennon's Double Fantasy was a decent album, but hardly his best work, b) Lennon was a great artist who spoke the truth as he saw it, but wasn't some Jesus figure who was gonna save us from ourselves - just a man with all the failings we all have, but with just as much right to live his life as we all have, c) felt bad that Yoko and Sean, because of what happened and the continued fascination with Chapman, have to be continually reminded about all of it more so than they probably already are, and d) Chapman really wasn't all that interesting, but rather a semi-demented loser obsessed with fame and took the easy, cowardly way of obtaining it rather than do anything useful in his own right.