Director Scott Cooper’s biopic movie, “Black Mass,” staring Johnny Depp as mobster James “Whitey” Bulger, uses gut-wrenching, vividly-portrayed cinematic visuals that keep the two-hour movie fast-paced and the audience captivated.
Black Mass tells the true story of Irish crime boss Whitey Bulger in South Boston who rose to power in the 1970s and 1980s and was second on the FBI list for 12 years before finally being captured in 2011. Bulger built alliances with the FBI to eliminate his competition, while continually assassinating anyone who double-crossed him.
Bulger is portrayed as a terrifying and calculating character who is involved in drugs, money laundering and gambling, while extorting and murdering his adversaries on a whim. Whitey strongholds his competition by playing cat and mouse with the FBI, serving as an informant for the crooked cops who shielded him, and his Winter Hill Boys — all while dismantling his rivals to gain full control of his illegal activities in South Boston.
It is a gripping tale of Bulger’s alliance with the FBI and his rise to becoming the Kingpin of South Boston with enough doses of cinematic visuals and crime-filled sagas to leave the audience gasping at the split-second brutality and bloodshed by Whitey and his Winter Hill Boys.
“Black Mass” is an intense and gritty portrayal of the South Boston Irish crime boss Whitey Bulger and is a compelling thriller that captures the desperado imagination reminiscent of our favorite Mafioso classics.
