10 SERIOUS PLOT HOLES - #52 of all time? Not quite ----> spoilers

Rating: 6/10 (27 October 2006)

I liked so much of it, but had some serious problems, including (Spoilers ahead ---->)
#1) Introducing the 'other rat' at the end was a little ridiculous. And why would he become a 2X cop killer to save Matt Damon? Did he think Matt Damon would rat him out? Matt Damon didn't even know he existed. Did he somehow still feel loyalty to the 'gang' (which seems ridiculous after he even said that Nicholson had ratted them out) Why wouldn't he have just continued to be a cop or quietly slip away? I know it's a movie, but don't introduce a character that we don't know and expect us to understand his motives.
#2) Di Caprio with the shrink seemed so forced. I have a couple of psychologist/psychiatrist friends and rule #1 is you don't sleep with your patients. You will never work again. She even mentioned how much she liked her job. Obviously she liked random trysts with Di Caprio more.
#3) Matt Damon and Jack Nicholson's 'final shootout' was terrible. Such a staged cinematic moment and then Damon shouts something like, "I've got him!" and then the hoards of police happen to notice where the main guy they were after is... That whole scene was just so sloppy and thrown together.
#4) The baby ... Was the baby Di Caprios or Damons? Are we supposed to care? Why even introduce this? Seemed like a story line that they started and then never finished or simply edited out a major scene.
#5) Nicholson was pretty sure that Di Caprio was the rat, but decided to still work with him despite his suspicions. I mean, he was the new guy ... Then all of these tips started coming in. And Di Caprio was a former police agent (which Nicholson knew!) Come on ... So stupid. And the guy dying right before he was able to tell everyone else in the gang that Di Caprio was a rat was terrible. That gang obviously was the biggest bunch of morons if they weren't 100% sure that they should at least stop working with Di Caprio (if you're not positive then wait to kill him ... but come on ... )
#6) Di Caprio scored a 1400 on his SAT's (so obviously he was pretty smart.) He sure let Sheen and Wahlberg play him like a fool. I mean if they weren't going to let him be a cop and that's what he wanted to do, I'm sure there would be plenty of avenues for him to pursue in order to become a cop (other than having to commit a crime, get put in prison, etc...) This just seemed so stupid. 1400 on his SAT's on the Boston Police Force ... Pretty sure he could have found work :)
#7) Leo checking Martin Sheens pulse after watching him violently fall to his death was classic :) Come on Leo, we were all pretty sure that he was dead :)
#8) These gang members seemed awfully prone to killing cops (How many cops a year are actually killed in the US by gun fire? It isn't that many) <--- However, it is a movie, so we can let this one go... But it was a little bit exaggerated in a movie that was supposed to be realistic. It isn't like in Goodfellas the gangsters just kill cops (if they kill any cops at all?) They kill each other!
#9) Matt Damon accidentally kills that Asian guy ... There are clearly surveillance cameras around. No other cop thinks to look at those to see if they can see who it was that was walking out? I mean Damon looked directly at the camera! Certainly they could have seen that he was there. Violent murders in Boston (even if they are Chinese restaurant employees) still get investigated... I promise.
#10) No backlash from the agents within the Chinese government for them being ripped off of a million dollars? Ouch. I mean I'm not an expert on the Chinese mafia, but something tells me that a million dollars and being set up would bring some sort of black lash ... Guess Nicholson is more powerful than the group who is buying nuclear missile trackers. Those Boston mob bosses are evidently the most powerful people on the planet.
I'm sure there are more... But 10 is a good number ! Any thoughts?