Movie: Black Mass (2015)***

Remember: The Departed (2006) and Mystic River (2003)

What happens: The story of the later years of Whitey Bulger's criminal career and his involvement with the FBI.

Johnny Depp carries this movie with an intense performance as the Boston crime lord, Whitey Bulger. There's a great cast behind him, too, but they just aren't notable, except in his shadow.

I'm giving Black Mass three stars*** because without Johnny Depp's great performance, this would've been a run-of-the-mill gangster flick. I did like the movie, though.

Depp should have been nominated for Best Actor.

I watched a screener of this movie.