The Dee-PAH-tid, as we say here.

Rating: 8/10 (19 October 2006)

Well, where to start? Martin Sheen gets Most-exaggerated-Boston-accent Award. Jack Nicholson gets Most-like-"here's johnny!" Award (again). Alec Baldwin gets the He-really-looked-and-acted-like-a-local-Irish-American-bully-cop Award. No awards for Marky W... he was just playing himself back in Southie. Great retelling of a notorious Boston story. Can't wait to see the one about the Big Dig, Mr. Monahan. I hope Whitey and his brother Billy Bulger got a chance to see this one. I think Scorcese went a little Little Italy on the violence. Too many bullet wounds and not enough baseball bats and beer bottles, the more traditional weapons of Boston hoodlums. A gripping suspense thriller most of the time. A short 152 minutes. It's a shame that Monahan's villains met a moralistic end. Life here in Boston just hasn't worked out that way.