“I don’t wanna be a product of my environment, I want my environment to be a product of me.” - Frank Costello (Jack Nicholson)

If you feel like there have not been real good action movies in Hollywood lately you can be dead wrong! The Departed is an amazingly gripping thriller. Based on the Hong Kong gangster film of the same name (”Wu jian dao”), Infernal Affairs, The Departed has been reset in Boston amid Irish-American mobsters and the cops who are their nemeses.

“The Departed,” the gritty crime drama from director Martin Scorsese, takes us into the lives of two cops: Colin Sullivan, smart and unabashedly ambitious, appears to be on the fast track in the Massachusetts State Police Department’s elite Special Investigations Unit, whose prime target is powerful Irish mob boss Frank Costello. Billy Costigan, street-smart and tough, is purported to have a violent temper that costs him his badge and eventually lands him back on the rough streets of South Boston, where he is recruited into Costello’s ranks. But neither man is what he seems and, as they work at cross purposes, they are plunged into a dangerous game of cat and mouse in which the stakes could not be higher. [Via Aurum3 Movies]