Black Mass

Here we have the latest Screen Unseen from Odeon. As you can see I bought this ticket back on the 8th October, such is my confidence in Odeons choice.
This one turned out to be Black Mass.
Johnny Depp plays James 'Whitney' Burger who, in the 1970's and 80's was Bostons most notorious gangster. He, together with the help of life long friend and FBI agent John Connoly (Joel Egerton) managed to murder, extort and generally 'gangster' his way to being almost untouchable..
OK let's start with the good points.. Both Depp and Egerton were excellent. There was also some nice supporting roles from the likes of Benedict Cumberbatch, Juno Temple and the ever Omnipresent Kevin Bacon amongst others.. Thats probably the ONLY good points to be fair.

My main problem seems to be the huge shadow of "Goodfellas" which hangs over the movie like an annoying teenager constantly pointing out how similar it is.. Goodfellas is 25 years old... 25 YEARS OLD..!?!? And I can still remember Joe Pesci's unhinged performance (and "spoiler" shocking death!) Plus the soundtrack... well mainly the full length version of Eric Claptons 'Layla' in the soundtrack.. And that's the main problem for me.. I CAN remember those aspects of the movie... I doubt I'll remember anything in this film in 25 years.. It was routine... Another 'meh'..
Which is a shame..
***... mainly for the leads performances..

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