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Rating: 6/10 (14 December 2015)

Black Mass
The Irish make the worst bootleggers because they drink all the moonshine before it can be sold.
Thankfully, the felons in this drama are more partial to racketeering.
As a means of eliminating his Italian adversaries, south Boston mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger (Johnny Depp) becomes an FBI informant for his office-bearing brother's (Benedict Cumberbatch) childhood friend John Connolly (Joel Edgerton).
With his newfound federal protection Whitney strengthens his stranglehold on the city. But a pertinacious prosecutor, Fred Wyshak (Corey Stoll), refuses to let him get away with this, or ignore Connolly's obvious corruption.
While Depp turns in an intimidating - and potentially award-winning - performance as the mad dog assassin, his true to life exploits don't come off as intense or as grandiose as the filmmakers would have you believe.
Incidentally, the best way to kill your Sicilian rivals is to hold a Godfather screening then firebomb the theater.
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