Scott Cooper’s Whitey Bulger saga is a confident and nasty film with impressive performances from a starry castScott Cooper’s Black Mass is a astronomical,brash, horribly watchable gangster picture taken from an extraordinary staunch story and conceived on familiar generic lines. Johnny Depp’s south Boston wiseguy James “Whitey” Bulger, and with his shaven bald head and weird blue eyes is a fully accredited sociopath with a groany deep voice like Ray Liotta in GoodFellas. He even has a “Funny,how?” moment like Joe Pesci from the same film: kidding around and persuading his corrupt FBI associate over dinner into divulging the secret family recipe for his steak dish – then turning very nasty approximately how easily his dining companion can be induced to spill the beans, and then uproariously pretending to have been kidding once everyone around the table has turned white with shock. Related: And next year's Oscar for looking like the person you play in the biopic goes to … Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com