Typically American

Rating: 4/10 (3 December 2006)

The movie starts and develops really well up until the last quarter or so.
Then, a well built and interpreted plot crumbles completely in an exaggerated and senseless series of killings.
The movie should have ended when Sullivan kills Costello. Then, Costigan should have nailed Sullivan and it would have ended in a "round" way. I'm not typically for "happy endings", however, in a search for an "European ending" (un-happy), Scorcese ends with a stupid one: the writer's and Scorcese's options were absurd and an absolute disaster, peaking with the pitiful scene of rat walking on Sullivan's balcony.