Whitey Doc vs. Black Mass

I am generally a much bigger fan of narrative films so I though that I would like Black Mass much more than I liked Whitey but it was not the case. 

Black Mass is by no means a bad film it has great performances from Johnny Depp and especially Joel Edgerton who I thought stole the show. The film was solid but the documentary was much more compelling and interesting. It gave much more of the actual story but I think this is expected from a documentary or at least that is what you would hope. The narrative film mostly just focused on Whitey's rise to power and a little bit of the fall but abruptly cut off their. The documentary mostly focuses on the trial of Whitey and how he affected so many people in his reign over South Boston. This part of the story was much more compelling and further developed because the end of Black Mass it really just gives you a couple of lines of what had happened to the people involved. To actually see all the real players have talking head interviews was very interesting especially knowing how many people they had all killed and how dangerous they all were. It was also very interesting to see that the most major hit-man of them all was out of prison already because he rolled over first so he was made a deal. 

Overall I liked the documentary much more than I like the narrative film and I expect that to be a rarity for me considering how much I love narrative storytelling.