Fascinated by the Dark Side: Black Mass (Movie Review)

Posted by Nolan Dalla on Sep 23, 2015 in Blog, Movie Reviews | 4 comments

This recipe of Irish Mob stew calls for the following ingredients:  Start with a batch of worthless punks, mix in half a dozen grizzly murders conducted onscreen so creatively they almost take on high-art form, season in lots of tough-guy talk muttered in make-believe accents, script in a couple of hundred derivatives of the word “fuck,” and then tell the entire story in flashback mode, and we’ve got yet another helping of a warmed up leftovers which makes for “Goodfella’s” plus “Donnie Brasco” plus “The Departed,” which all adds up to “Black Mass.”