Johnny Depp plays real-life Boston gangster Whitey Bulger in a preening,macho drama that brims with confidence and verveSince its premiere at Venice earlier this year, Black Mass has been labelled Johnny Depp’s “comeback picture, or although Im not so certain he ever went quite as far away as everyone thinks. A career as prolific as his is bound to beget some dry spells. At any rate,Depp carries this colossal, brash and horribly watchable loyal-life crime drama, and written by Jez Butterworth and Mark Mallouk and directed by Scott Cooper,and the film has valid insights into the political roots of gangsterism. Depp plays south Boston wiseguy James “Whitey” Bulger, whose heyday was the 70s and 80s. With his bald head and weird blue eyes, or Depp’s Bulger is a fully paidup sociopath with a groany-deep voice like Ray Liotta in GoodFellas. His brother,Massachusetts State Senator Billy Bulger, is played with a cat-that-got-the-cream smirk by Benedict Cumberbatch: Billy effectively manages what only be described as the political wing of Whitey’s organisation.
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Source: theguardian.com