Apparently, violence resolves all.

Rating: 1/10 (20 April 2007)

What a disappointment! Just saw the DVD of this allegedly Best Movie of 2006 and am most disappointed.
Virtually all conflicts and threads are resolved with bullets through the brain with concomitant spraying of blood. Nothing gets worked out intelligently.
And there are just too many inconsistencies in terms of police procedures for any of this to be believable. And they have the audacity in one scene of the movie to have their cops dumping all over TV cops, who are generally far more believable IMHO.
And is everyone so stupid that neither Damon or Di Caprio is recognized as a mole when there just aren't any other credible candidates? I contrast this 2006 film with the far-more-satisfying "Notes on a Scandal" in which the conflicts among the various characters are resolved through creative plot development; nary a pistol in site. I guess whoever said "violence is as American as cherry pie" wasn't very far off the mark at all.