The story rattles along at such a lick there's little time to ponder the plot holes -- no mean feat in a film of this length and with so many fine actors competing for our attention.
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02/20/08
The Departed (2006)
92 %
Reviews Counted: 222 Fresh: 205 Rotten:17 Average Rating: 8.2/10
Consensus:
The Departed is a thoroughly engrossing gangster drama with the gritty authenticity and soupy morality that has infused director Martin Scorceses past triumphs. Featuring outstanding work from an excellent cast that includes Jack Nicholson, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Matt Damon, some critics say the film even tops its source material (the Hong Kong thriller Infernal Affairs). The Departedmarks a triumphant return to form for Scorsese; it's his best-reviewed film since GoodFellas.
Rated: 18
Runtime: 2 hrs 31 mins
Theatrical Release: 06-10-2006
Synopsis: Director Martin Scorsese returns to his trademark style with the violent, bruised, and bloody feature THE DEPARTED. Scorsese filched the basic storyline from Wai Keung Lau and Siu Fai Mak's masterful 2002 Hong Kong action film, INFERNAL AFFAIRS, which saw a policeman going undercover as a... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Vera Farmiga, Martin Sheen
Director: Martin Scorsese
Screenwriter: William Monahan, Siu Fai Mak, Felix Chong
Producer: Jennifer Aniston, Brad Grey, Brad Pitt, Graham King
Composer: Howard Shore
Screenwriter: William Monahan, Siu Fai Mak, Felix Chong
Producer: Jennifer Aniston, Brad Grey, Brad Pitt, Graham King
Composer: Howard Shore
Reviews
Top Critic
Martin Scorsese returns to gangland in The Departed, a slick, soulful retelling of overrated Hong Kong actioner Infernal Affairs.
10/10/06
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Crackling with energy, featuring great actors sinking their teeth into the meatiest of roles and a plot that bubbles with tension, this is Scorsese’s finest film since Goodfellas.
10/06/06
few directors can compose a movie with the power, grace and assurance that Scorsese brings to each shot and scene, and The Departed is more fun, and certainly more funny, than his last few films.
10/05/06
Top Critic
Superbly written and brilliantly acted, this is a return to form for Scorsese - if this doesn't get him the Best Director Oscar, nothing will.
10/05/06
Owes a heavy debt to the original version, but this is a masterpiece all its own.
10/05/06
Back to the streets and with a stellar cast, Martin Scorsese proves once again that he’s the master of urban storytelling -- and of thrillingly violent filmmaking.
10/02/06
Top Critic
Scorsese has made an incredible cover version of the original, imbued with every ounce of his artistic personality transforming it into something both familiar and new.
04/18/08
The Departed heralds Martin Scorsese's return to the top of his game and simultaneously secures for the film a place in the pantheon of the very best of American crime cinema. Welcome back to Scorsese's mean streets.
02/28/08
... a fantastically entertaining crime thriller, crackling with energy from beginning to end. ... But Nicholson's outrageous over-acting becomes a distraction.
09/21/07
Scorsese revisits old territory in The Departed, and he doesn't do anything he hasn't done brilliantly several times before.
07/30/07
Scorsese is clearly a master filmmaker but in my opinion, he's only phoning it in here. THE DEPARTED is a matter of been there, done that. Second tier Scorsese is still good, it just doesn't rank up there with his best work.
07/14/07
Probably the director's most taut piece of storytelling since Goodfellas.
07/14/07
What makes this a Scorsese film, and not merely a retread, is the director's use of actors, locations and energy, and its buried theme. I am fond of saying that a movie is not about what it's about; it's about how it's about it.
07/06/07
Top Critic
Freud claimed the Irish were the only people impervious to psychoanalysis. Scorsese goes about proving him wrong.
06/26/07
Sometimes accused of failing to harness the kinetic energy that abounds in his films, Martin Scorsese has done such a fine job of balancing the heat and the cold here.
04/28/07
The Departed doesn't improve in any way on Infernal Affairs, which served up a return to stylish Hong Kong action.
03/30/07
Scorsese takes William Monahan's brilliant adaptation and completely makes it his own, resulting in not only one of the best movies of the year but also one of the best of his amazing career.
03/24/07
Scorsese's treatise on honour and trust has a sprawl that's at once epic and cohesive.
03/15/07
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