Scott Cooper is evidently very good at letting famous actors do whatever they want in classy but largely generic films. Here Johnny Depp gives yet another idiosyncratic, physical performance as a charismatic psycho, and who the fuck cares?

Early on in the film a bunch of gangsters are hanging out in a car and one of them starts to tell a story about how he heard porn stars in Los Angeles eat a bunch of celery right before they perform. He gets interrupted and never explains why they do this. I was more interested in hearing the end of that story than anything that happened over the next 100 minutes of movie.

Johnny Depp might still be covered in make-up for this role, but at least he's not running around like a babbling idiot. Instead he plays a very dark, heartless, and brutal man and he knocks it out of the park. Black Mass is filled with fantastic performances, Johnny Depp and Joel Edgerton being the standouts.

My biggest issue with this film is that it's a bit hollow and slow moving. While, I was always interested in what was going on, I'd be lying if I said I wasn't bored some of the time.

Jawny Depp’s pretty good, but the othuh actors could have done a bettuh jawb with the Bahston accents.

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A movie exactly as generically ominous and boring as its title. Cooper and Depp have all the moves down cold but no soul.

Rory Cochrane though.

It took me 4 days to finish this long-ass boring movie, sure, Johnny Depp is amazing, but it doesn't compensate for the waste of time and energy I lost to this. And the reason I watched is Dakota Johnson, guess what? She has less than 5 mins of screen time, kill me already, ugh.

Depp gives a devishly twisted performance.

Conseguiram deixar o Johnny Depp feio.

A strong performance for Johnny Depp after a slew of hit or misses.

"It's not what you do, it's when and where you do it, and who you do it to or with. If nobody sees it, it didn't happen."

Happy birthday Johnny Depp! 💛

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"No es lo que haces, es cuándo y dónde lo haces, y con quién o con quién lo haces. Si nadie lo ve, no sucedió."

I liked the movie, but I would have liked, idk, more action or something like that. I got bored in the middle of it.

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Una vez más la "gran actuación" de Johnny Depp se la llevan sus maquillistas quienes esta vez lo transforman en una especie de mantarraya humana metida hasta el fondo en la mafia bostoniana. Nada nuevo en Black Mass.

I enjoyed this film, but that's about it.
Depp is really good in this.
But why did they make him so ugly?
The look fit the movie.

My main criticism was Joel Edgerton's character.
His performance and the writing.

In Donnie Brasco the dynamic between Depp and Pacino was more realistic and troubled.

Edgerton's character seemed like an imbecile going along with it all.

I wish they would've showed his connection to Depp's character more deeply. I couldn't get behind him because to focus was not on their friendship. This is the biggest mistake this movie made.

It could've been more of a drama about Edgerton being manipulated by Whitey Bulger. And they could've showed scenes in the past where Whtey helped him to make me feel more for Edgerton's mission.

This didn't happen and I didn't feel anything for him.

I had fun, but it left me feeling a bit empty.

Fun, not important, and forgettable.

Hey, you like mob movies? You sicka dem Mafia movies, you wanna see how udda nationalities crime it up? You want it simple wit no surprises with Johnny Depp looking like a tired fahkin' vampiah? Doot. Dis movie is fuh YOU. Fuck you, though, really.

Typical politician:
All cock, but no cum

I don’t know what scared me more. Johnny depps eyes or his hairline.

This movie has such a great paceing.. the score and the acting, I keep coming back! A masterpiece of a flick!

Salah satu film bergenre Crime/Drama yang gue suka banget. Dari mulai ceritanya yang menarik & seru, acting para aktor yang sangat bagus, dan juga cinematographynya yang apik.
Cara Johnny Depp membawakan Karakter Whitey Bulger sangat bagus & terkesan mengerikan. Justru menurut gue, kesan ngerinya bukan dari adegan pembunuhannya tp dari karakter Whitey Bulger yg cool tp sadis.

Frankly unremarkable - to say the least. I only even remembered this film existed because my roommate owns it. He finds it to be underrated, but certainly no masterpiece. I certainly agree with him on the latter, but that seems to be a rather common take. Mostly I just found this to be, boring? I couldn't give a hoot about anybody, and couldn't stop laughing at the amount of people whose name was John (like, half the characters I swear). Save yourself an afternoon, watch a Scorcese mob flick. They are far better and way less cookiecutter. Unless you like cookiecutter films, then be my guest I guess.