Black Mass (2015)

My first current movie! I guess I'm really doing any movie I watch for the first time. Anyways, Black Mass was awesome, and it is SO good to see Johnny Depp act like this again. I'm a fan of many of his characters, but I rarely think he chooses good roles. Not so here. He played a scary Whitey Bulger, and his performance was perfect. The whole cast was great--Joel Edgerton, Benedict Cumberbatch, and many others. I was surprised by how good Dakota Johnson was, despite her smaller role. Besides the amazing performances, the screenplay must have been great too because every scene was necessary as well as either fun or scary. The movie felt a lot like The Departed, but thats ok; not every movie needs to reinvent the genre, and its always nice to see a new and well-made crime movie. Overall a great movie, and I would be surprised if this didn't get some Oscar noms.