Very engaging performance from Johnny Depp as Jimmy Bulger. Even a slight change of facial expression marks a really different tense coming from the character, displaying a cold-blooded, frightening gangster Bulger is. It is unfortunate Black Mass has a bit too many unexplored subplots, particularly Jimmy's relationship with his brother, Billy, and the tense relationship John Connoly has with his wife that we see only a glimpse of it. Even the dynamics between Jimmy and John Connoly isn't played well enough that despite their close relationship that come of as beneficial to each others - the red line between Bulger's life and Connoly's life - they don't come off as anything but mere accomplice.
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Very engaging performance from Johnny Depp as Jimmy Bulger. Even a slight change of facial expression marks a really different tense coming from the character, displaying a cold-blooded, frightening gangster Bulger is. It is unfortunate Black Mass has a bit too many unexplored subplots, particularly Jimmy's relationship with his brother, Billy, and the tense relationship John Connoly has with his wife that we see only a glimpse of it. Even the dynamics between Jimmy and John Connoly isn't played well enough that despite their close relationship that come of as beneficial to each others - the red line between Bulger's life and Connoly's life - they don't come off as anything but mere accomplice.