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The Departed, 2006
English, Cantonese
USA, Hong Kong
Profile of The Departed
The mood of The Departed is bleak, tense, and clever. The plot centers around blind ambition, working undercover, and a rise and fall. It is a thriller and crime movie. Stylistically, The Departed features an all-star cast, is neo-noir, and has a Hollywood tone. In approach, it is serious and realistic. It takes place, at least partly, in an urban environment. The Departed is set in Boston. It happens in contemporary times. The musical score is rock. The Departed is a remake. The movie is known for being a modern classic, an Oscar winner, and a blockbuster. It is especially suggested for a boys' night. Note that The Departed includes strong violent content, drugs/alcohol, and sexual content.
Summary of The Departed
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 mob member and a mob member infiltrating the police force. Scorsese transfers the action to Boston, positioning Leonardo Di Caprio as undercover cop William Costigan and Matt Damon as undercover mobster Colin Sullivan. While Costigan and Sullivan get into plenty of nail-biting situations that almost reveal their true identities, Scorsese gradually unravels his strong supporting cast, including Jack Nicholson as Sullivan's mob boss, Frank Costello; Ray Winstone as Costello's meat-headed muscle; Mark Wahlberg as a hot-headed police sergeant; and Vera Farmiga as a love interest for both Damon and DiCaprio's characters.
THE DEPARTED finds Scorsese generously dipping his toes back into waters that will be warmly familiar to his biggest fans. Rolling Stones songs pepper the soundtrack, recalling the remarkable "Jumpin' Jack Flash" sequence in MEAN STREETS; bullets and blood punctuate every key scene, bringing TAXI DRIVER's explosive finale to mind; and the mobster-themed storyline is a thrilling return to GOODFELLAS territory. Nicholson and Winstone provide acting master-classes every time they appear, neatly complementing the blossoming talents of DiCaprio, Damon, and Wahlberg, while further veteran support comes in small roles for Martin Sheen and Alec Baldwin. Scorsese is often criticized for affording precious little screen time to female characters, and THE DEPARTED won't quell those dissenting voices, although Farmiga's character proves to be more than a match for DiCaprio and Damon's posturings. But Scorsese followers who balked at his diversions into documentary filmmaking (NO DIRECTION HOME) and period epics (THE AVIATOR) will be delighted to find raw male machismo puncturing the screen once again in this frenetic entry into his celebrated oeuvre.
Details
| Language: | English, Cantonese |
| Country: | USA, Hong Kong |
| Release date: | 6 October 2006 |
| Runtime: | 151 min |
| Awards: | Academy Awards |
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The Hollywood Reporter
A ferociously entertaining film.
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- by: Kirk Honeycutt
Newsweek
The Departed is Scorsese's most purely enjoyable movie in years. But it's not for the faint of heart. It's rude, bleak, violent and defiantly un-PC. But if you doubt that it's also OK to laugh throughout this rat's nest of paranoia, deceit and...
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- by: David Ansen
Users Reviews
The casting really hurt this movie. DeCaprio may have done a couple of push-ups prepping for this role, but he was far from believable as not just a tough guy, but a tough guy that was tough enough to beat up thugs and mobsters two or three at a...
- 28.August.2010
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- by: Sean
- Sean rated this movie
0/10
I'm the kind of person who enjoys being enwrapped in a movie. i typically don't allow myself to judge future events within the movie but rather let them occur as the story unfolds. I was not able to do that in this movie as the plot was so blatantly...
- 10.October.2009
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- by: Ken Garland
- Ken Garland rated this movie7/10Good
