Quite complicated but is a good one after all

Rating: 8/10 (10 August 2013)

This is the second time I watch this film and It again amazes me from start to the end. Billy and Colin Sullivan, the two main actors, ends up with both dead but they do really play a run and catch very well. Billy in role of an silent hero who has to give up the pride and honor of a police man to live as a life of crime. On the other hand, Colin shows his intellectual impasse when he realizes that the longer he wears this mask, the deeper he sinks his life in a swamp. There are several scenes I don't understand at all, for example the appearance of another police rat or what happens next with Madolyn, what is she gonna do with the envelop given by Billy. However, it is a good remake of Martin Scorsese.
One minor thing, the end of this film is what I don't like most when the director let Dignam, a cop, kill Colin in a criminal but realistic way. It'd be better if Dignam would be the one who catches Colin finally and give the job back to law and justice. I think Colin did have an easy death.