Take all the components of a great movie. Top-tier actors, one helluva of a true story and a sense of period style. Then throw all of that on a gameboard and let it sit. That's this movie. It's just... flat. The film can't decide who the protagonist is and as such, the story feels like a cliff-notes retelling of the Bulger affair. The most interesting characters and actors (Juno Temple and Peter Sarsgaard jump to mind) barely have any screen-time, and none of the women in the lives of these men are given any proper story closure or screen-time. Depp and Edgerton are fine, but I didn't feel any particular... well, feelings about them. They felt more like placeholders. Maybe if the film had focused on Plemons as the viewpoint character from the start onward, things would've had more of an arc.
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