Do you know who I am I don't?

Rating: 5/10 (10 March 2016)

***SPOILERS*** Long-151 minutes-and confusing movie about police corruption as well as stupidity in the Boston Police Department that has two pretty boy cops William "Billy" Constigan, Leonardo DeCapiro, and Staff Sgt. Colin Sullivan,Matt Damon, pitted against each other in a wild race to both get big time Boston mob boss Frank Costello, Jack Nicholson, either behind bars or have him escape justice. It's the straight laced Sgt. Sullivan who's actually working for Costello and tipping him off on any police raids on his crime organization. And it's the kicked out of the police department Costigan who's really working undercover as one of Costello's hoods who's trying to get the goods on him and have Costello indited and convicted for his crimes.
With all that out of the way the film goes into overdrive into the two cops working on opposite sides of the law who ends up confronting each others when they realize their screwed in what they've been doing by both the police as well as by Costello. Costigan in having his identity erased due to his undercover operation and becoming like in the no longer in existence Soviet Union a "Non-person" with any proof of his ever existing! As for the thinks he's on top of things Sullivan ends up finding out that his boss Frank Costello is actually a FBI informant who'll end up taking him, and his entire crime organization, down when he gets pinched by the police.
***SPOILERS*** There's also Costigan's court appointed, after he was released from jail, psychiatrist Dr. Madolyn Madden played by Vera Farmiga who besides treating him for mental depression is also Sullivan's girlfriend who luckily for her is one of the few members of the cast that ends up alive when the movie is finally over. Far too many sub plots to follow or keep up with in what looks like almost everyone on the police force either dirty or just plain, in how they act, totally clueless with Costello getting his not by the police but his in is house-in the Boston Police Department-infiltrator Sullivan himself. That's in order to cover his a** in him being discovered as being the "Rat" in the Boston Police Department that everyone in it is looking for.
As for the by now totally confused and off his medication Costigan he's put to rest, or dead, by a fellow cop who' s another "Rat" in the police department who in return is blown away by Sullivan, whom he just rescued, to keep him, if found out and interrogated by the police, from exposing him! Not to be overlooked Sullivan who thinks he's now on easy street ends up getting the surprise of his life when coming home with the groceries, after attending Costigan's funeral, he meets about the only good cop left in the department, who had since quit his job in disgust, waiting for him the crazed and violent prone former Staff Sgt. Sean Dignam, Mark Whalberg, who's got a score to settle with him for old times sakes.