Black Mass Film Analysis

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If someone asked me “what’s my favorite movie favorite movie of all time?” I would think for a long time about the answer. There are many well-rounded films that I savor, so choosing the best of them would be a complicated project. Me being an immense movie lover, I watch a lot of movies sometimes two or three times a week, watching a movie unquestionably helps me unwind after a long day at work or school. A film takes my mind off things, I don’t think of anything while watching a movie. The genres of movies I watch are action, crime, comedy and scary movies. For this assignment I really didn’t know what to write about there are so many great movies to critique, so I decided to write about the most recent movie I watched called …show more content…
James was asked to spy on the Angiulo brothers which would lead to more arrests and money for John Connolly while James was allowed to get away with his crimes that included murder, human trafficking,selling drugs and smuggling weapons which I thought was a dumb idea that the FBI would go after the Angiulo brothers instead of Bulger, knowing that Bulger was a bigger threat than the Anguilo Brothers with more crimes and gang members but, It was a win-win situation for both James and John. The story then closely follows how James Bulger went about doing his business with his entrusted men, Kevin and Steve, performing horrific executions and assassinations for James. The police knew what was going but they looked the other way. Meanwhile, Bulger's brother William was at the top of the Massachusetts state senate. The director made him play a small ruse which I thought was a waste of talent because Benedict Cumberbatch is a great actor the director could’ve gotten anyone else to do it. Other characters who are simply introduced, but not given much to do are Bulger’s partner: Lindsey (Dakota Johnson), John Connolly's right hand man in the agency: John Morris (David Harbour), and John Connolly's wife: Marianne (Julianne Nicholson). The film uses these characters to explore some of the family dynamics in the 1970’s and 1980’s and when it does it works to its advantage, but the film feels like it is missing some cohesiveness between each separate individual. Take for instance a scene where Bulger is eating dinner with Lindsey and their son Douglas while Bulger is explaining to Douglas how to get away with hitting a boy in school who is bullying him. The scene works perfectly to give us a sense of how Bulger thinks and his parental believes this also shows how much he cares about his son because
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