A very solid true story movie, not the best gangster movie by far, but a very descent one

Rating: 9/10 (3 February 2016)

Greetings from Lithuania.
"Black Mass" (2015) is a very true story about a local mobster in Boston, who by the help of FBI ruled the streets for some time. This is a very good movie, absolving one, with great acting by all involved, very solid directing, engaging script that never isn't boring, and is involving from start till finish. That said "Black Mass" isn't "Goodfellas" by any means, because you can re watch "Goodfellas" again and again, and "Black Mass" is basically a one time movie, but nevertheless it is a very solid one.
The best acting in this movie was not Johnny Depp's (altough he is VERY good in here, haven't enjoyed Johnny Depp's movie in very, very long while now), but from superb and always reliable Joel Edgerton. He creates or recreates in this case this FBI guy, who is as much as a good guy trying to do good, but at the same time he is more then an friend to James 'Whitey' Bulger - and that isn't a really good thing considering the circumstances, but he was as he was. This is a very solid performance. And about Johnny Depp - in the beginning of this movie noticing his eye lenses and make up - it was a bit to heavy in my opinion even distracting, but it grown on me during the movie, it is a very solid performance.
Overall, Scott Cooper, a great director (of a brilliant "Out of the Furnace") does a very solid job in recreating true events. I liked this movie very much, it not a classic by any means, but just a very solid film. I also liked that this movie never tried to show any glimpses of Whitey's redemption or anything like that - he was a bad guy at the beginning, middle and the end - he is just a bad guy. All in all this is a very solid movie for one viewing.