Truth Stranger Than Fiction

Rating: 8/10 (14 January 2017)

There are certain genres of movies I like such that if they are done halfway good I will like the movie: Westerns, Biopics and Gangster movies. I can hardly think of a gangster movie I didn't like (with the exception of Godfather 3... ~shudder~).
Black Mass, besides being a true story, really reminded me of The Departed. You had Boston as the setting, gangsters, informants and a man inside law enforcement assisting a known gangster.
The acting all around was great. Johnny Depp is super as the ruthless mob boss Jimmy Bulger. Joel Edgerton (whom I've never heard of) was exceptional as the ambitious yet loyal FBI man John Connoly.
It is a classic gangster tale much like many others except this one is real, it occurs in Boston and it had the interesting dynamic of FBI sanctioning. Again, it is much like The Departed but I still saw it as its own entity.