I expected more

Rating: 7/10 (23 November 2015)

James "Whitey" Bulger is one of the most interesting phenomena on the American crime scene. Not only that he is a colorful character, but also his criminal career was quite distinctive, as well as later life. For 20 years he ruled the Boston underworld, and then he spent 16 years on the run. He served as a model for Martin Scorsese for the character of Frank Costello in The Departed, the eccentric mobster who put their his spies in the police, masterfully played by Jack Nicholson. Here we have Black Mass by Scott Cooper with Johnnie Depp in the role of James Bulger. Deep finally has a chance to really play a character. Black Mass is not a boring movie and a movie without style, but it still lacks that certain something. You can find it in few individual scenes, but it was not enough to improve the impression of a film that lasts two hours.