Word: underworldly
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...their secrets.The script by William Monahan was adapted from the hit Hong Kong movie, “Infernal Affairs.” It is a remake (after all, it does star the reigning king of recycled movies, Mark Wahlberg), but this film is deeply rooted in the Boston underworld, which helps it stand on its own. Clocking in at over 150 minutes, this is a long and involving story to tell, but the characters are so complex and the twists are so unexpected that it flies by faster than a Will Ferrell movie. The razor-sharp dialogue is particularly...
...with any gnarly crime plot, this one dares to strain credulity. Once or twice, a skeptical viewer may ask, What are the odds? The odds that Billy would commit all manner of crimes, to prove his underworld bona fides, and never get so much as an interested glance, let alone a collar, from the cops who don't know he's one of them. The odds that Colin would rise so quickly in the force, and be deemed so trustworthy that he'd be assigned to sleuth out the rat on the team - himself. The Departed adds one coincidence even...
...more than 13 years later, a Bombay court convicted 42-year-old salesman Mohammed Shoaib Ghansar of planting the scooter bomb. He was only the fifth of 123 defendants to be convicted of involvement in the blasts, believed to have been carried out by members of Bombay's Muslim underworld in retaliation for the demolition of a historic mosque in 1992 by Hindu nationalists...
...Hollywood movie about World War II movie, ordinary guys often discovered their heroism as soldiers behind enemy lines. There they learned teamwork, resourcefulness, toughness under pressure. Now the boys were back home. And if they weren't going into the employ of the underworld, they could use their wartime tools in a corporate environment, by continuing to work for the government, but as homicide detectives, immigration enforcers, treasury agents. Sometimes, double agents...
...interest, and some sympathy, in He Walked by Night, it's the heroes who reclaim the limelight in Border Incident, the first film Mann made for MGM after his very productive stint at Eagle-Lion. It's essentially a remake of T-Men: two agents go undercover in the underworld; one dies. Pablo Rodriguez (Ricardo Montalban) has come from Mexico to join U.S. Immigration official Jack Bearnes (George Murphy) with the intent - get this - of stanching the flow and exploitation of illegal farm workers coming up from Mexico. Pablo will pretend to be a bracero looking for a fast...