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Sep 24, 2015 · It’s sure to be compared to The Godfather and Goodfellas, but Black Mass is in a category all its own. It’s a dark character study – grim, sinister and brooding.
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By Jim Vejvoda
Updated: Nov 24, 2018 7:02 pm
Posted: Sep 17, 2015 10:08 pm
"All our wars were merry, and all our songs were sad." That Irish saying is an appropriate one for the rise and fall of FBI agent and South Boston native John Connolly. As depicted in the brooding true crime drama Black Mass, Connolly certainly found merriment during his war against the Boston Mafia, but ultimately his ended up a very sad song indeed.
And this is Connolly's (Joel Edgerton, sporting a flawless Boston accent) story more so than that of the higher-profile turn by Johnny Depp as the agent's prized informant and boyhood hero, gangster James "Whitey" Bulger. Whitey certainly commands plenty of screen time, but Connolly's fate is the tragic one as his hubris and twisted hero worship of tough guy Bulger blinds him to the painful truth. By the time Connolly realizes the tail is wagging the dog, he's in too deep and too corrupted to disentangle his fate from Bulger's.
Back home in Boston with an edict to eliminate La Cosa Nostra, Connolly concocts a plan that will at first make him a rock star among G-Men before ultimately causing his downfall. Connolly forges an alliance with Whitey Bulger, the leader of the Southie (and predominantly Irish) rackets, to help him take down the Italian mob. Whitey's end of the deal requires him to feed Connolly intel on his enemies in exchange for protection from the Feds.
For those familiar with the Whitey Bulger-FBI saga, Black Mass won't reveal anything you didn't already know, but those who aren't will hopefully leave the cinema realizing that monsters can be created, sustained and set loose by bureaucratic agendas, institutionalized apathy, tribal fealty, and brotherly bonds. And that these same vicious, greedy ...
Black Mass spins a gripping yarn out of its fact-based story -- and leaves audiences with one of Johnny Depp's most compelling performances in years. Read Critics Reviews
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Sep 4, 2015 · Black Mass turns Aviator shades and a receding hairline into one hell of a scary combo. But Johnny Depp’s broodingly psychotic turn as convicted Boston crime lord James ‘Whitey’ Bulger is ...
Black Mass is a 2015 American biographical crime drama film about American mobster Whitey Bulger. Directed by Scott Cooper and written by Mark Mallouk and Jez Butterworth, it is based on Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill's 2000 book Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob.
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Sep 17, 2015 · “Black Mass,” about the tangled criminal history of Boston gang boss James “Whitey” Bulger, is a bizarre movie. It really doesn’t work until you tune into its wavelength.
