The mob movie

Rating: 7/10 (12 November 2014)

I always have a hard time getting into mob movies and this was no exception. The first hour did have me glued to the screen but after a while all the violence and f-bombs blurred together and I stopped paying close attention. I also got fed up with all the flip phone action (were they new and cool in 2006 or something?) Anyways they drove me crazy.
The cast is a veritable whose-who; Jack Nicholson is, Jack and he's awesome, as are Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon and Mark Wahlberg. They play two sides of organized crime in South Boston as the state police wage war on Irish American organized crime. A young undercover cop Billy Costigan is assigned to infiltrate the mob syndicate run by gangland chief Frank Costello (Nicholson).
Despite the two distinct sides portrayed here I still felt everyone was bad, just bad for a different cause. And the ending, "head shots" the first one was completely brilliant and surprising in a WTF just happened kind of way by the 3rd or 4th time it was just overkill (pun intended) and lost its value. 09.13