BLACK MASS Starring Johnny Depp as Notorious Thug Whitey Bulger

F---k you, F--k that, F-----g C--k Sucker - one more expletive and I swore I would exit.  I lied. I hung around for more bloody gore in BLACK MASS directed by Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart.)  BLACK MASS tells of the morass gangster activity of the infamous Jimmy "Whitey" Bulger (an unrecognizable & convincingly creepy Johnny Depp.)  The movie is told in flashbacks by "rats" a.k.a. informants, who were accomplices to the reign of Whitey's nefarious dealings, brutal beatings & blatant murders.  The movie spans the 1970-1980-s in Boston.  It would seem South Boston boys who grew up together formed a bond of bother hood; not necessarily for good.  This dark, depraved film pulled me back in and made me feel complicit.  Bulger managed to elude prosecution for drug dealing, racketeering & murder for nearly 2 decades.  Obviously, Whitey colluded with someone on the other side of the law.  While Whitey went to the dark side, his brother became a state senator and his fellow classmate, John Connolly became an FBI agent.  Connolly (Joel Edgerton, "The Gift") morphed into a self grandiose agent whose narcissistic needs were fed by info from Whitey that led to Mafioso indictments.  This is what makes the film deliciously deranged, the doppelganger duplicity by agent Connolly who cons himself into justifying covering for Whitey's activities.  If you were a fan of the Sopranos or Breaking Bad (shame on you if you weren't) you will find the real life story of mosbter Whitey and agent Connolly fascinating.  You may want to look the other way with all the violence but it's a F------g guilty pleasure.