Fifty Dead Men Walking (2008)

Based on Martin McGartland's shocking real life story. Martin is a young lad from west Belfast in the late 1980s who is recruited by the British Police to spy on the IRA. He works his way up the ranks as a volunteer for the IRA whilst feeding information to his British handler and saving lives in the process.
Fifty Dead Men Walking is a big and wonderful movie about a bunch of Irish people who are being terrorized by the Brits. They decide to fight fire with fire for their freedom. On the one hand you have the IRA blowing people up with bombs and torturing people ala Reservoir Dogs, but on the other hand you have the invading British force in riot gear randomly abusing any Irish Catholic who jay walks or looks cross-eyed, ala Abu Ghraib. This isn't Braveheart; it's more like Spy Game or dare I say the actual invasion of Iraq. There is no innocent side in this gritty story, any well-defined good or evil, just the truth about a war. However, this film goes beyond The Crying Game or In The Name Of The Father to present something that is more in the tradition of great gangster films such as The Departed (aka, Infernal Affair) or Blow or Donnie Brasco or even Good Fellas, or great cable dramas such as Brotherhood; it is as cinematic as Scarface or The Good Shepard, with elements from the older classics such as Seven Ups or French Connection spicing it up.