Black Mass might not be a great movie, but there's probably at least one guy who likes it even less than our reviewer did, and that's the real life gangster James "Whitey" Bulger.
Of course, he hasn't seen the movie, and he probably never will considering he's serving two life sentences and seems to hate the idea of its existence. He refused to communicate with Johnny Depp, who portrays him, in any way while the movie was being made.
Here's a statement his attorney gave to People, saying Bulger, 85, has zero plans to watch the movie even if it somehow makes its way to the Florida prison where he's being held.
As for Bulger's former associates who have seen the movie, they're saying it's mostly fiction.
“We really did kill those people,” Kevin Weeks, the former "right-hand man" to Bulger during the heyday of their Winter Hill Gang in Boston, said to The Daily Beast. Other that he says it's a "fantasy." He's played by Breaking Bad actor Jesse Plemons in the film.
The whole interview, including Weeks' account of what really went down in the scene where Depp's Bulger strangles a woman, is at The Daily Beast.
