‘Black Mass’ (2015) Review
Black Mass (2015) Review: Strictly Criminal Crime films are quite possibly the most conflicted genre of cinema. Here you have films that depict the most gratuitous acts of violence, moral depravity and disregard for the rules that society has agreed to align themselves by. Their characters use foul language and more or less depict psychopathic tendencies. This is a genre that takes it's cues from the villains perspective. Yet, for every misjudged act of hyperbolic violence, the audience never seems unnerved.The reason is, mob movies, like the western before it, present these heinous personalities within the context of something that makes all the things that are inherently wrong right. A code. Characters in mob films live by a sense of honour, and presenting that as a central theme in the film makes the story you're watching feel as if it exists in a state of ordered chaos. After all, in the words of the immortal philosopher Omar Little, a man must have a code. Black Mass has everything that makes a good mob film and more. It follows the story of F.B.I agent John Connolly, played by Joel Edgerton. Connolly is a Southie native, and when he discovers a new federal agenda to take down organized crime, he gets it in his head to work with childhood friend turned gangster Jimmy "Whitey" Bulger, as a means of providing the Bureau with information, in exchange for protecting Whitey from any harassment from law enforcement.Technically,…