"I'm the guy that's doing his job, you must be the other guy"

So I saw a great movie this weekend. Twice.



For the sake of full disclosure, I should say that I recently studied Scorsese over a semester, and came to the conclusion that he's the greatest living director in the history of American Cinema. Ok, maybe not the absolute best, but I am prone to fits of hyperbole. Anyway, he's amazing, in my correct opinion.

So this is a remake of a recent Hong Kong action film "Infernal Affairs." The plot is basically this: two recent Massachusetts State Police Academy grads are both undercover. One is a mole for a mobster in the police department, the other is a mole for the police department in the mobster's crew. They are both supposed to figure out who the other mole is.

I liked it a lot for several reasons. First of all, the tension. The entire film you are tense waiting to see who is going to figure out the situation first, the cop or the criminal. Second, the ambiguity. For a lot of the film you are rooting for Matt Damon, because he seems so likeable, until you realize how much of a hardened criminal he is. Leo DiCaprio is the good guy, but he seems much less likeable. Thirdly, the music. Gimme Shelter was used perfectly. That Irish music, which was probably the Flogging Mollys or something, was great.

The casting was outstanding. Mark Wahlberg was probably my favorite character, but really everyone did a phenomenal job. Really my only complaint would be Jack Nicholson. Too much. But yeah, definitely Alec Baldwin (FAG), Matt Damon (FAG), Martin Sheen, Leo DiCaprio, and everyone else did great jobs.

Just go see it.