A good movie

Before this movie came out there was really a good buzz about it. Indeed, not only was Johnny Depp apparently giving a great performance but, at last, he was finally involved a very good movie. Well, eventually, it didn’t make such waves when it was released but I was still really eager to check it out. And indeed, even though it was a decent watch, I thought the whole thing was missing something to become really amazing. It was actually some strong material but I guess it wasn’t helped by the fact that this story was really notorious and, therefore, nothing really surprising or unexpected happened during the whole thing. I mean, sure, Johnny Depp was quite impressive (he actually said that it was his favorite out of all his films) but the whole thing felt unfortunately like some kind of one-man-show and most of the other characters, even though they were played by some well known actors (Benedict Cumberbatch, Dakota Johnson, Kevin Bacon, Peter Sarsgaard, Adam Scott, Corey Stoll, Juno Temple,…) were barely developed at all. The only exception was Joel Edgerton who had a nice evolution going from a well-meaning FBI agent to an informant working for his gangster buddy, even behaving like a thug himself . I mean, even with Whitey Bulger, they kept telling us that he became in the process a major crime lord in Boston and, yet, you didn’t see any actual change in his behavior, in his appearance, in his surroundings suggesting that there was any actual improvement concerning his status. Basically, Bulger seemed to be exactly the same guy before working with the FBI and after working for them which was rather poorly done. Anyway, even though it was slightly disappointing, it was still a decent watch and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you want to finally see a good movie starring Johnny Depp.