The new film starring Johny Depp talks is about an criminal Bulger, who infiltrates FBI using a friend John Connelly. It is like the movie Donnie Brasco but on the reverse. Gangster James Whitey Bulger infiltrates FBI.
John Connelly an ambitious and incompetent FBI agent, proposes his childhood friend Bulger, to help with informations for arresting the head of the italian Mafia in Boston, in exchange for immunity from the authorities. Bulger grows and grows till upsets the authorities and they react.
The movie doesn't have suspense, Bulger acts as it is expected as psychopathic criminal.
This movie is far from the value of "Departed" which described the same subject and the same characters, but muck better, with more suspense.
If I have to compare the how the Jack Nicholson acted as Costello in the "Departed" versus how Johny Depp acted as Bulger I would say that Nicholson was possessed by the character of the gangster and Depp played as a gangster.
Depp gave his charisma to the character, while Nicholson became the character.
In both cases, you see the influence of previous characters in their play, Depp's gangster was a strange person as Edward the Scissor hands, Nicholson was more like Jack Torance from Shining, or McMurphy from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
John Connelly an ambitious and incompetent FBI agent, proposes his childhood friend Bulger, to help with informations for arresting the head of the italian Mafia in Boston, in exchange for immunity from the authorities. Bulger grows and grows till upsets the authorities and they react.
The movie doesn't have suspense, Bulger acts as it is expected as psychopathic criminal.
This movie is far from the value of "Departed" which described the same subject and the same characters, but muck better, with more suspense.
If I have to compare the how the Jack Nicholson acted as Costello in the "Departed" versus how Johny Depp acted as Bulger I would say that Nicholson was possessed by the character of the gangster and Depp played as a gangster.
Depp gave his charisma to the character, while Nicholson became the character.
In both cases, you see the influence of previous characters in their play, Depp's gangster was a strange person as Edward the Scissor hands, Nicholson was more like Jack Torance from Shining, or McMurphy from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.