Depp- a massive performance in greatness

Rating: 8/10 (28 October 2015)

It's time that we'd had another refreshing mafia pic, although Black Mass is not in the same category as old unforgotten classics. Again, this is based on real characters, Depp at his creepiest, who has his moments, of really making you unsettled, and we love this great actor for it. First off, the acting is superb, no one out of line here, Dakota Johnson looking sexier here than in Fifty Shades, who plays Depp's wife. Whitney Bulger (Depp) was the most feared gangster in Boston, where Depp's obviously done the character justice. Responsible for a supermarket of crime, but impossible to catch. An old friend from the neighborhood, John Connolly (Oz's Edgerton) now, FBI, throws an offer at Depp to be an informant, taking down obvious arch enemy mob figures, Bulger, hates, while maintaining to go on doing what he does. What's truly sad about this arrangement was how John and his partner, got themselves in something way over their head, really copping a tragic blow, by really trying to do good, where Connolly, lucked out most of all with an eye widening and truly unjust sentence. It's the last half an hour, the dangerous situation and predicament of Connolly's and co, that really makes this part of the movie's most engrossing which doesn't ensue as you think it will, as in more blood spattering. There are other frightening moments, and some predictable ones, in this that comes from seeing other mafia pics, but B.M. is another reason, to see a great actor at work, in probably what is his finest hour. Bulger was a despicable figure and there were times, you actually sympathize with him, through his pathetic self, but Depp's performance will leave his mark on ya. Trust me.