At long last a film where Johny Depp isn't playing a fucking geeky geek!
As
the notorious crime boss James 'Whitey' Bulger, a menacing make-up laden Depp manages quite brilliantly to lay
low and still stand out at the right places as pure evil personified.
Bulger
is a mob boss who will ask you a seemingly harmless question at random and
whether you end up dead in a dumpster the following night or not will depend on
how serious you sound to him when you answer.
While
it would be a long shot to say that this is his best role ever, I could say
that this might be his best role in the last half decade at least.
And
he is supported by an excellent side cast, including Joel Edgerton (who the film belongs to, in my opinion), Benedict Cumberbatch (pulls off the
Boston accent despite being British and that definitely earned some brownie
points in my books), Julian Nicholson
(is terrific in one scene where Bulger tries to freak her out), Kevin Bacon (bit role) and the
promising Jesse Plemons (bit role
again).
But
despite the top notch acting, I would still say the movie is underwhelming on
the whole. At best a good film. Not mind-blowing.
A
definite one time viewing though.
Watch
it for what has now officially been termed as Depp's return to serious acting and for Edgerton's performance as FBI agent John Connelly who was able to
convince his agency to protect Bulger as an informant for nearly two decades in
which Bulger managed to commit several counts of murder and racketeering
without anybody pointing a finger at him.
Catch
the trailer here:
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