Written by James M. Tate / 9/18/2015 / 1 Comment / 2015 , crime , joel edgerton , johnny depp , mob
JOHNNY DEPP IN BLACK MASS
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year: 2015 |
One effectively spooky scene, where he kind of threatens a cohort's wife, turns MASS from a crime genre ala Martin Scorsese, including a groovy Rolling Stones track during a montage of violent money-making, into a sinister horror flick where the subliminal power of implied evil exceeds the often gratuitous violence, an obvious attempt to push the GOODFELLAS envelope even further:
In fact, there's one intentionally awkward moment where Depp turns the table (literally sitting at a dinner table), and you can almost hear him say, "Do I look funny to you... like a clown?"
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Movie Score: *** |
Perhaps if centered more deeply on a few important deals to make the victims mean more than an overall body count, BLACK MASS could be, like its cinematic predecessors, more of a pointed, personal mob character-study than a vague biopic of a really bad dude breaking rules on either side of the law. In that, Depp does play deadly and nefarious with sublime perfection. But he deserved a slightly better movie to really shine.
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I'm going Tuesday to see this. Another great review. Since I've read about and watched various docs on his life I figured I'd read your review before I saw it.
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