All the tough criminals cooperate with the FBI As this movie was advertised, so I expected to see a tape in the style of “Gangster” or “Cocaine”. As you can see, I was disappointed. Depp can't play real gangsters unless they're Johnny's. This was seen at Johnny D. His acting always includes anarchy, ballet and humor. If there is no one, the role is difficult. However, we have to pay tribute to makeup artists, he did not look like himself. But I still don't understand why he needed those lenses with a very small pupil? To intimidate?
Basically, what this is the coolest and most famous gangster of the 80s I understood from the dialogue. No backup with a picture except for his picture in the newspaper. We are watching a movie and the whole environment in which it was to be explained. In the same "Gangster" the hero had a luxurious house, clothes, women, and in "Cocaine" in fact, too. You can see how much they earned and how much! There's nothing like that in Black Mass. Its danger is shown by sharp, deliberate killings, shown to us as spontaneous. His brilliant mind is backed by nothing, except the main not very brilliant idea. And the fact that he had a plan for everything is not traced in any way.
The plot is in principle, we have already seen more than once “Catch me if you can”, “Gangster”, but the same “Informant” is also suitable here, because it is also cooperation with the FBI.
I think it’s all the fault of the theatrical version. We will have to wait for the director’s version with the hope that there we will finally get everything rumoured and we will penetrate the hero.
However, acting is good for the actors of the second plan. I wrote about Depp earlier. I will not say that the film is bad, but if you compare it with the paintings of the same genre, then “Black Mass” is inferior to them.
But I love Johnny.
7 out of 10
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