Black Mass Movie Review Trailer Stars Johnny Depp
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Director: Scott Cooper There is, indeed, a Roman Catholic Mass in the course of Black Mass, the bloody, true-life crime drama starring as Boston gangster It's a funeral Mass for the sole major character in the film who's allowed to die of old age. Others around him take less-graceful exits: a bullet to the head; a savage beating; a long, gurgling strangulation. But the film's title more aptly applies to the dark cloud of crime and corruption that hovers over 1970s Massachusetts, where the movie unfolds. It's a roiling cauldron of corruption in which brutality and lawlessness have somehow become synonymous with honor and loyalty. Life in the criminal underworld of mid-1970s is not for the faint of heart. The Mafia is at war with the local Irish mob, led by Bulger, a balding, small-time hood played with understated ferocity by Depp. Bulger is fiercely devoted to his family, most especially his young son, his mother and his brother. The latter is a highly respected state senator, played with aristocratic detachment by . Bulger is a punk. He's a sociopath. He's a cold-blooded killer. But in the weird moral calculus of South Boston, he's a favorite son: When he's not pulling teeth from the corpse of his latest execution victim, this Irish "Southie" helps old ladies carry their grocery bags. At least, the locals figure, he's not one of those no-good Italians who are strong-arming their way into every numbers racket and pinball arcade in town. Oddly enough, the FBI essentially agrees. An ambitious young G-man named John Connolly (), who grew up with Bulger, is assigned to enlist Whitey's help in bringing down the Italians. In return, Bulger gets to fill the criminal vacuum created by the Mafia's departure, making him more dangerous than ever. Along the way, Connolly makes enough compromises to assure his own destruction, betraying every principle he has sworn to uphold. In Black Mass, we welcome Johnny Depp back from The Land of the Freakishly Flamboyant, that unbeloved country he has occupied for the past few years (see , or .) As Bulger, Depp doesn't let a masterly makeup job mask the nuances of his character's twisted psyche.
Johnny Depp Conducts an Unholy ' Black Mass'
As brutal crook Whitey Bulger he performs more than his share of last rites
Claire Folger/Warner Bros. Benedict Cumberbatch and Johnny Depp get gangsta' in 'Black Mass' Rating: R Run time: 2 hours 2 minutes Stars: Kevin Bacon, Benedict Cumberbatch, Johnny Depp, Joel Edgerton and Dakota JohnsonDirector: Scott Cooper There is, indeed, a Roman Catholic Mass in the course of Black Mass, the bloody, true-life crime drama starring as Boston gangster It's a funeral Mass for the sole major character in the film who's allowed to die of old age. Others around him take less-graceful exits: a bullet to the head; a savage beating; a long, gurgling strangulation. But the film's title more aptly applies to the dark cloud of crime and corruption that hovers over 1970s Massachusetts, where the movie unfolds. It's a roiling cauldron of corruption in which brutality and lawlessness have somehow become synonymous with honor and loyalty. Life in the criminal underworld of mid-1970s is not for the faint of heart. The Mafia is at war with the local Irish mob, led by Bulger, a balding, small-time hood played with understated ferocity by Depp. Bulger is fiercely devoted to his family, most especially his young son, his mother and his brother. The latter is a highly respected state senator, played with aristocratic detachment by . Bulger is a punk. He's a sociopath. He's a cold-blooded killer. But in the weird moral calculus of South Boston, he's a favorite son: When he's not pulling teeth from the corpse of his latest execution victim, this Irish "Southie" helps old ladies carry their grocery bags. At least, the locals figure, he's not one of those no-good Italians who are strong-arming their way into every numbers racket and pinball arcade in town. Oddly enough, the FBI essentially agrees. An ambitious young G-man named John Connolly (), who grew up with Bulger, is assigned to enlist Whitey's help in bringing down the Italians. In return, Bulger gets to fill the criminal vacuum created by the Mafia's departure, making him more dangerous than ever. Along the way, Connolly makes enough compromises to assure his own destruction, betraying every principle he has sworn to uphold. In Black Mass, we welcome Johnny Depp back from The Land of the Freakishly Flamboyant, that unbeloved country he has occupied for the past few years (see , or .) As Bulger, Depp doesn't let a masterly makeup job mask the nuances of his character's twisted psyche.