The Departed (2006)
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Critic Consensus: Featuring outstanding work from an excellent cast that includes Jack Nicholson, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Matt Damon, The Departed is a thoroughly engrossing gangster drama with the gritty authenticity and soupy morality that has infused director Martin Scorsese's past triumphs.
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Legendary director Martin Scorsese takes the helm for this tale of questionable loyalties and blurring identities set in the South Boston organized crime scene and inspired by the wildly popular 2002 Hong Kong crime film Infernal Affairs. As the police force attempts to reign in the increasingly powerful Irish mafia, authorities are faced with the prospect of sending in an undercover agent or seeing their already frail grip on the criminal underworld slip even further. Billy Costigan (Leonardo … More
| Rating: | R (for strong brutal violence, pervasive language, some strong sexual content and drug material) |
| Genre: | Drama, Action & Adventure, Mystery & Suspense |
| Directed By: | Martin Scorsese |
| Written By: | Siu Fai Mak, Felix Chong, William Monahan |
| In Theaters: | Oct 6, 2006 Wide |
| On DVD: | Feb 13, 2007 |
| Box Office: | $132.3M |
| Runtime: |
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Not only is The Departed not among the best of Scorsese's films; it's not even the best version of this film.
This crime thriller is a profane, blood-drenched joy to watch.
The Departed is an example of a cinematic master seeking to live up to the veneration with which he is regarded by his pupils.
The dialogue crackles wittily and obscenely, and the set-pieces are superbly staged.
This has its moments - what Scorsese film does not? -- but over a two-and-a-half-hour stretch it huffs and puffs and still doesn't blow the house down.
As in his remake of Cape Fear, Scorsese has mucked up a B-movie he professes to love: producing something full of twists but devoid of that lovely, fluttery, rare thing: surprise.
Audience Reviews for The Departed
This was a great movie from beginning tp the final minutes and than i felt rushed. Very rushed, Im not sure why but the final 30 minutes or so just were overdone. But in the end still a great movie.
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This is just too awesome.
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The Departed Quotes
| Colin Sullivan: | Do you got fucking tapes? Of what? Costello was my informant! I was a rat? Fuck you, prove it! He was working for me, he was my informant! |
| Billy Costigan: | Shut you're fucking mouth. Come on, get up! |
| Colin Sullivan: | What is this a citizen's arrest? Blow me! Alright, only one of us is a cop here Bill. You understand that Bill? No one knows who you fucking are! |
| Billy Costigan: | Would you shut the fuck up!? |
| Colin Sullivan: | I'm a sergeant in the Massachusetts State Police, who the fuck are you? I erased you! |
| Dignam: | Oh you're a fucking genius huh? Who forged you're transcript, dickhead? |
| Frank Costello: | I got this rat. This gnawing, teething rat. |
| Frank Costello: | When I was your age, they would say you could become cops or criminals; today what I'm saying to you is this: When facing a loaded gun, what's the difference? |
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