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The Departed is definitely one of the best movies of 2006 and deserves all the accolades that it has received since last fall. It's certainly Martin Scorsese's best film since Casino. This movie also does for the Irish mob what Goodfellas and Casino did for the Italian Mafia. It gives the viewer a close look at the horrible violence, gut-wrenching fear, and unexpected betrayal that comes to anyone involved in this type of business for any length of time.
The Departed deals with Frank Costello (played by Jack Nicholson and based somewhat loosely on the real James "Whitey" Bulger) who is the head kingpin of the South Boston criminal underworld. He's smart, charming, and utterly ruthless in how he conducts business. You never screw around with Costello because he'll kill you in a heartbeat. Planning ahead for the future, Costello begins grooming a young Colin Sullivan (the older Colin is played by Matt Damon) for a life of crime and to eventually enter the Boston Police Academy so that he'll have a mole inside the police department. Once Colin makes the grade, Costello helps him to achieve career-making arrests and to advance up the ladder inside the department. While this is happening, Billy Costigan (played by the underrated Leonardo DiCaprio) strives to rise above his Boston heritage and to make it into the Massachusetts State Police. Two higher-ups in the state police (played by Martin Sheen and Mark Wahlberg) see Billy's potential and offer him the opportunity to go undercover and to hopefully infiltrate Costello's criminal network. To achieve this, Billy is expelled from the State Police Academy under false charges of assault and sent to jail for several months. When he finally gets out, Billy starts selling drugs on the street with his cousin and quickly comes to the attention of Costello. Costello remembers Billy as a boy and admired his straightforward father. This leads to a job offer from Costello, enabling Billy to get his foot inside the door. From this point on the movie is basically about Billy and Colin doing their jobs as a mole and trying not to get caught. It won't be long, however, before the two young men realize that both the Mob and the police have come to the conclusion that there's a rat inside their organization. Both Colin and Billy then play a cat-and-mouth game as they each seek to discover the identity of the other. The hunt for the mole's identity is intense. This is the heart of the story and what keeps you glued to the edge of your seat. You never know what's going to happen next. And, no matter how you think the movie is going to end, you'll be wrong. In fact, I was totally blown away by what happened as each twist caught me by surprise, leaving me completely unprepared for the next one. I was finally left sitting on the couch with my mouth hanging open at the final scene. Few movies have the audacity to end in such a violent mode. Only someone like Scorsese could actually pull it off and not lose the audience in the process.
The Departed is a tight, fast-paced, character-driven film about the life of crime, betrayal, and the emotional drain it has on everyone involved. No one is left unscathed. The performances by all the main actors are superb and deserving of an Academy Award, especially Leonardo DiCaprio. He captures the emotional turmoil and fear that can literally overwhelm an undercover agent, who teeters on the edge life and death each and everyday. Martin Scorsese once again proves that when it comes to crime drama, he's one of the top directors working in the business today. This man finally deserves to win his Oscar for Best Director. If he doesn't get it for this film, then there's someone very wrong with the Academy of voters for The Departed is one powerful, violent movie that stays with you long after the end credits have rolled. One last comment that deals with the Irish music that was played at different times during the film. Whenever I heard it, I kept expecting to see Michael Flattery from Lord of the Dance appear, doing his version of the Irish folk dance. I know that it made me want to get up and dance, which I don't think was its intended purpose. Finally, the two-disc Special Edition is the one to buy. The second disc is loaded with extras: a 25-minute featurette on the Real Boston Mob, a 90-minute documentary with Martin Scorsese discussing his life and his most famous films, another 25-minute featurette on how New York City's Little Italy affected Scorsese and his work in the film industry, and a look at several scenes that were deleted from the movie. The Departed is so good that I'm going to watch it again in just a few minutes. Usually I like to wait a couple of weeks before seeing a movie for the second time. Not this one! Highly recommended!!!
Congratulations to Marty Scorsese for winning Best Director for The Departed!!!!
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Undercover. Underhanded. Unrestrained.
In The Departed, two just-graduated officers from the Massachusetts State Police Academy are following opposite sides of the law. Billy Costigan is assigned to work undercover with the Irish mobster Frank Costello in an effort to get enough evidence to arrest him. Costello’s protégé, Officer Colin Sullivan, is the mob’s informant on the force. But when it becomes obvious there’s a traitor on both sides, each “rat” does his best to identify the other before being exposed himself.
Trivia
The Departed is an American remake of the Hong Kong film Internal Affairs.
Budgeted at $90 million, The Departed grossed nearly $290 million worldwide.
This is the only remake of a foreign film to win an Oscar for Best Picture.
One of the main reasons Jack Nicholson joined the production was because he wanted to play the role of a villain again.
This is the first Scorsese film that Jack Nicholson has appeared in.
A Crackling Crime Thriller
- An all-star cast, directed by the incomparable Martin Scorsese
- Winner of four Academy awards including Best Picture and Best Director
- Two and a half hours of engrossing gangster drama
- Available on DVD and Blu-ray
Meet the Cast
Billy Costigan (Leonardo DiCaprio)
An ace police cadet, Costigan is assigned to infiltrate the Irish mob to collect evidence that will convict mob boss Costello.
Frank Costello (Jack Nicholson)
The head of the Irish-American mob in south Boston, Costello plants Sullivan in the Massachusetts State Police as a mole.
Colin Sullivan (Matt Damon)
Sullivan is introduced into the world of organized crime by Irish mob boss Frank Costello. Sullivan is groomed from the beginning to be an informant for the mob.
Staff Sergeant Dignam (Mark Wahlberg)
A loyal and hardworking detective, Dignam is one of the few who knows Costigan is a police informant. When it comes to Sullivan, Dignam thinks he smells a rat.
A very enjoyable, 5-star film adapted from its equally good, lesser known Hongkong-made original.
Rewatching this award-winning film 11 years later is still every bit as enjoyable as when I first saw it in cinema in 2006. However the experience I had might be different to many American audiences for I watched and loved its original 4 years before The Departed was made. The Departed is an adaptation from a Hongkong made original film, Infernal Affairs. The storyline, plot twists, characters and in some cases dialogues and scenes were extremely similar between the two films, with the exception of a few changes in The Departed towards the very end of the film - In the original, there were two different endings: Mainland China version ended with the arrest of the "police mole" (the girlfriend reported on him), while in the Hongkong version his true identity remained unrevealed and he continued in the police force after fabricating the report for the incident shown in the elevator scene, however the last scenes showed that he had a constant suffering from a great internal struggle of a confused identity. I have to say I enjoyed both films equally. The Departed is on a darker, bloodier side with more quick-paced action and realism while the Infernal Affair continued some traditions of Hongkong police-triad themed and melodramatic storytelling. The Infernal Affairs' Chinese title, directly translated to "The Never-Ending Paths", refers to the lowest level of hell in Buddhism belief where one is trapped in eternal suffering. However despite the many use of distorted shots of Buddha statues in The Infernal Affairs to echo this theme, I did find the internal struggles of the two main characters weren't portrayed as much or as well as in its later adaptation The Departed. The use of Buddhism motifs, however, did lifted the Infernal Affairs a little above eye-level and as an audience one may in some cases feel empathetic to the sufferings of the characters from another perspective. It is interesting to me to think that many Hongkong and Mainland China's directors were influenced by Martin Scorsese over the past decades, who in turn won his Oscar with this adaptation. I am happy a film of this quality came out of this symbiosis relationship.
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