Fantastic Movie

Rating: 10/10 (2 February 2016)

Black Mass is excellent. I'm not a huge Johnny Depp fan, but this is his best movie EVER. And while some may think it moves slow, etc. this movie is an accurate depiction of Whitey Bulger's life as one of America's most notorious gangsters. Remember 'The Departed?' As you may know, it was 'loosely based' upon Bulger - although many facts were altered. The reason why: Whitey hadn't been caught by the FBI. Martin Scorsese didn't have the stones to use Whitey's name. He called Jack Nicholson 'Frank Costello,' aka the crime boss in New York, circa 1950. Whitey was finally captured in Santa Monica in 2011 by the Fed's. It was only after he was behind bars for life did anyone DARE make a true to life movie based upon him. Can anyone blame Scorsese or anyone else? Whitey was a ruthless, cold-blooded killer. Black Mass shows this in fine detail. In my opinion, while 'Mass' isn't 'Godfather' or 'Goodfellas' quality, if you know and follow gangster movies as I do, 'Black Mass' is most certainly in my Top 10.