This movie was brilliant and if you are a fan of the incredible Martin Scorsese  you will not be disappointed.  Scorsese is known for his dark, violent, raw, explosive and hard edged movies and this one will surely not disappoint. The violence was realistic and brutal.  The all star cast was at its best.  The sets were amazing and the camera angles were refreshing and clever keeping the audience moving with he ever changing plot and story line.

Taking place in Boston, the state police has an on going investigation on the Irish mob and Leonardo DiCaprio plays Billy Costigan their undercover agent.  Billy quickly has to learn the trust and respect of Frank Costello (Jack Nicholson) who is the head of the mob, who also has an informant inside the police force, a boy he has mentored since youth and taught to become a well educated criminal, who quickly rose to the top of the criminal investigations unit named Colin Sullivan (Matt Damon.)

Soon the police and the mob both realize there are hidden moles/informants among them and it becomes messy as the stakes begin to rise and they realize their positions could be jeopardized, thus leading to their ultimate death.   This movie is engaging and forces the audience to ponder what happens when the man in charge is corrupt.  The journey is complicated but its enjoyable. 

Jack Nicholson opened the journey as he was telling his young apprentice that nobody ever gives you a deal, you just have to go and take it.  He was spectacular and utterly uninhibited in this film.  Im usually not a Nicholson fan but he was undeniably brilliant in this role, even though he was the stereotypical villain.  My favorite and probably most shocking scene of his was when he broke the cast off Billy, one of his guys, as he was trying to weed out or prove he might be the mole.  His character Costello also had some of the best lines of the movie.  "In the old days, Id kill of everybody that worked for me if I knew one of them was dirty"  and my very favorite.  "He is so hot for me, all Id have to do is give him a whiff of my ass and he'd crawl up it."