It’s safe to say that John Travolta is on the downward trajectory of a career that peaked quite some time ago.

Having recently starred in Gotti, a film so bad that basically everyone agreed it was a festering pile of excrement, the actor would have hoped for a warmer reception for Speed Kills.

Look, going on name alone one wouldn’t expect great things, but even with the bar nice and low critics are still having a field day.

Take the Daily Beast, for example, who have written an article titled ‘Fallen Star: The Sorry State of John Travolta”.

It’s a bloodbath from the get-go:

In Speed Kills, John Travolta refines a look he heavily relied upon in June’s Gotti: a wincing, pained expression that suggests he might be angry, or he might be sad, or he might just be constipated, which is making him angry and sad at the same time…

Travolta furrows his brow and squints his eyes like he’s desperately holding something in, all from beneath a hairpiece that appears to have been glued carelessly onto the top of his head. Delivering a veritable compendium of awkward movements and strained smiles, he’s like an animatronic robot lookalike of the Saturday Night Fever and Pulp Fiction icon…

More perplexing than the plot, though, is Travolta’s continued 2018 slide, both on and off the big screen.

OK, at this point let’s take a breather and watch the trailer for Speed Kills:

Blimey, that sure does look like utter garbage.

Look, the rotten movies are just one aspect of Travolta’s crashing career, because there’s also the allegations made by ex-Scientologist Jeffrey Augustine and a number of other people:

…Augustine claimed that devout Scientologist Travolta—who for years has been dogged by rumors that he’s gay, a no-no in the church—has “got a dark side and he’s reckless.” That came on the heels of a recently unearthed 2000 police report in which a male masseur accused Travolta of “sexual battery” (one of several such allegations), as well as stories suggesting that he and fellow Scientology titan Tom Cruise are engaged in a bitter feud.

Yup, John and Tom aren’t exactly seeing eye to eye.

If you are a fan of beauts like Pulp Fiction and Saturday Night Fever, it’s all a little sad:

It’s a long way from the star’s glory days—and the fact that his next project, Moose, is an apparent riff on The Fan and directed by Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst doesn’t inspire confidence that a comeback is imminent. Of course, with a career as illustrious as Travolta’s, a few misbegotten projects aren’t capable of terminally sullying his legacy. Yet in light of the embarrassing Speed Kills, it might be best if he stops trying to test that idea.

See, Johnny Depp, you’re not the only actor who has watched his career go down the toilet.

[source:dailybeast]