Warner Brothers Pictures
Released October 6th, 2006
ACADEMY AWARD WINNER: Best Motion Picture of the Year
ACADEMY AWARD WINNER: Best Director, Martin Scorcese
ACADEMY AWARD WINNER: Achievement in Film Editing, Thelma Schoonmaker
ACADEMY AWARD WINNER: Best Adapted Screenplay, William Monohan
ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATED: Best Supporting Actor, Mark Wahlberg
Without a doubt, this is the hardest movie ever to try and review. This two and half-hour saga was epic. The acting was top notch. Scorsese did the whole world justice by releasing this film. In the post-Sopranos world, I thought that gangster movies were a thing of the past. I dreaded the thought of another Italian mobster flick coming out and tarnishing a genre of cinema that I love so much. So I thank god (or I thank Scorses for that matter, they are same thing) for giving us The Departed: an Irish mob movie set in Boston filled with betrayal, sex, violence and yeah, some more violence.
The film centers on the concept of deception. There is not a character in the film that does not deceive someone at one point or another. From Spy Cop Billy Costigan (Leonardo DiCaprio) to Corrupt Detective Colin Sullivan (Matt Damon) to Irish Mob Boss Frank Costello (Jack Nicholson), everyone seems to dabble in the two-faced world. Perhaps only Lead Detective Dignam (played by my favorite, Marky Mark Wahlberg) has a clean conscience in the end.
As you can see, the cast is ridiculous. You know that a script is good when actors like Martin Sheen (Oliver Queenan) and Alec Baldwin (Ellerby) agree to be supporting actors. Some people try to discredit the screenplay saying it was a knock off some old Chinese something or rather but I don't care. I was captivated and I left tingling. As always with Scorsese movies, be prepared for some unnecessary violence, some totally strange cinematic events (Jack Nicholson and a coke whore?) and an ending you cannot predict.
3.78 out of 4
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