In short, they all offer very strong support for Depp, who takes control of the proceedings from the outset and never yields it, except for when he disappears for a while in the second half. Read more ‘Beasts of No Nation’: Venice Review Peter Sarsgaard has some memorable moments as a drug-addled businessman who has the misfortune of ending up on Bulger’s bad side Harbour, Adam Scott and Kevin Bacon seethingly express, as federal agents, the FBI’s growing frustration with the situation Corey Stoll comes on strong as a federal prosecutor determined to nail Bulger, while Cumberbatch must go the other way to elegantly portray the distinguished brother who escaped the slums, had nine kids, served as longtime Massachusetts Senate president and then as president of the University of Massachusetts. As Bulger’s childhood crony who went straight only to make his bed with Bulger and then had to sleep in it, Edgerton is outstanding, painting a vibrant picture of an ambitious hustler who thinks he can talk his way into and out of anything but whose anxieties begin to show like cracks in melting ice. The performers return the favor with very strong, sometimes riveting work - and all with pretty passable Beantown accents. Cooper, who previously directed Crazy Heart and Out of the Furnace after working as an actor, times and stages the violence for sharp visceral impact and street realism, avoiding operatic extremes as well as trendy fast cutting and ridiculous forms of physicality.īut especially in regard to some key interior dramatic sequences, Cooper would seem to have given the Godfather films some very close re-viewings, as his typical approach is much like Coppola’s, starting with carefully composed and sometimes lengthily held master shots that are followed by unusually tight and sustained close-ups, which make the actors look really good. Earl Brown, Jesse Plemons and Scott Anderson are plenty convincing as his inner-circle boys. Where killings are concerned, sometimes Bulger does them himself, while on other occasions he lets one of his beefy goons handle them Rory Cochrane, W. He breaks down and argues with his wife ( Dakota Johnson), after which we never see her again maybe we don’t want to know what happened to her. The one thing Bulger can’t control relates to his only child, a six-year-old boy who dies from an allergic reaction to an injection. Turning a blind eye toward this as best he can is Bulger’s upstanding brother Billy ( Benedict Cumberbatch), who happens to be Massachusetts’ most powerful state senator. This works out brilliantly, especially for Bulger, who now not only has Boston to himself by enjoys virtual carte blanche as far as the Feds are concerned he can extort or kill essentially anyone he wants and knows he can get away with it. An escalation of war with the Angiulo family in North Boston seems inevitable, but Bulger’s Winter Hill Gang isn’t the only organization that wants to bring the Italians down: The FBI can’t get anything on them, so the bureau’s John Morris ( David Harbour) and an agent who’s known Bulger since boyhood times in the neighborhood, John Connolly ( Joel Edgerton), eventually persuade Bulger that it’s in his interest, as well as theirs, to secretly team up against their mutual enemy.
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Their comments are revealing but not conflicting: Their boss was the thug of thugs, the baddest ass in Boston, a man who finally, in his 80s, was sentenced to two life terms plus five years after having been charged with murder (19 cases), extortion, racketeering, narcotics peddling and money laundering.Įarly scenes neatly establish the tough-guy ways of Bulger, recently sprung from nearly a decade in federal prison, including Alcatraz, and his underlings in the bars and cars of Southie. In a nod to Citizen Kane, the script by Mark Mallouk and Jez Butterworth is structured around interview testimony given by some of Bulger’s longtime henchmen after their arrest and their boss’ disappearance. He grew up in the slums of Southie and has known most of his cronies since playground days.
He’s far from the biggest guy in the room, but he’s plenty tough and has a Bloodhound’s sense of smell for anyone who might be thinking of crossing him. He may be better-looking than the real Bulger, but not by much. You can detect Depp behind the elaborate makeup job - the thinning, blondish, brushed back hair, the blue eyes, the rotten teeth. Bulger, to this day, denies that he was a rat for the Feds, the worst thing you could be in his world to him it was an “alliance” to rid Boston of the Italian mafia.
What gave him such status provides the substance of this continually absorbing melodrama, one that scarcely glamorizes Bulger’s complete allegiance to a life of crime. Johnny Depp Makes Surprise Appearance at 2022 MTV Video Music Awards as "Moon Person"
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