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"The Departed" opens as perhaps all Martin Scorsese movies will open, when you pass away and get to watch them the way you want them on that big silver screen in the sky. The Rolling Stones are on... more

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  • 22 of 22 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 5 paulie1975

    Member since 13/05/2008

    Reviews written: 154

    5 Stars One of Scorsese's Finest Review with images 31/08/2011
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Brilliant, acting, great story and direction

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Incredibly bad language

    The Film The Departed is a remake, there is no getting around this, as good as the film is, it is an American remake of the remarkable Hong Kong Thriller, Infernal affairs. The plot is pretty much the same as the original, but the dialogue has been rewritten to suit the audience and the location by William Monahan It was a welcome return to form for Director Martin Scorsese after a couple of his less highly acclaimed projects (The Aviator, Gangs of New York), this takes him back to an arena he knows well, highly stylised Gangster territory. Although most viewers will accept this isn’t as good ... more
  • 46 of 46 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 5 Entwife

    Member since 17/12/2001

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    5 Stars "Cranberry juice? Whaddya, on yer period?" 08/06/2007
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Witty, gritty, thrilling... the best gangster film I've seen in years.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages A bit of a Deus ex machina ending, some predictable moments...negligable really

    "I don't want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me. Years ago we had the church. That was only a way of saying - we had each other. The Knights of Columbus were real head-breakers; true guineas. They took over their piece of the city. Twenty years after an Irishman couldn't get a f&*$ing job, we had the presidency. May he rest in peace. That's what the n*&$ers don't realize. If I got one thing against the black chappies, it's this - no one gives it to you. You have to take it." These opening lines by Frank Costello (Jack Nicholson) in Scorsese's film ... more
  • 53 of 53 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Member since 19/06/2007

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    4 Stars Step right up for the adrenaline injection! 23/06/2007
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Exciting with a strong twisting plot.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Slow start and unfulfilling end.

    ^^^Synopsis^^^ New cop Billy Costigan (Leonardo DiCaprio) was brought up in crime; most of his family are or were criminals. This makes him the perfect undercover “mole”, the man on the inside of the terrorising mob run by Frank Costello (Jack Nicholson). It’s his assignment to gain Costello’s trust and help his police bosses (Mark Wahlberg and Martin Sheen), who are the only people on the police force who know he is actually a cop, to bring Costello and his violent mob syndicate down. In the meantime, SIU officer, in the same department, Colin Sullivan (Matt Damon) is very trustworthy. It ... more
  • 37 of 37 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    4 Stars Modern crime compared to Scorsese's crime 21/02/2007
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Superb performances all-round; top calibre thriller; fresh departure for Scorsese; complex and original story; fantastic script

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Not really Scorsese's film; overly choppy editing at times; occasional poor use of soundtrack

    Twelve years have passed since Casino graced our screens in 1995, the last "mob" movie we have seen by Martin Scorsese, arguably the finest director of crime pictures. Indeed, since then, with the exception of a couple of films, the mob movie has gradually died out. So when the finest director of crime pictures releases a film of the crime genre, it's difficult not to get excited. As an Italian-American born in Little Italy, Scorsese has always brought accurate, gritty and in part semi-autobiographical crime thrillers to the screen, but the important thing to note is that Scorsese primarily ... more
  • 28 of 28 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 8 afy9mab

    Member since 11/07/2000

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    4 Stars The Nearly Departed 04/04/2007
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Some great performances, thorough direction.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Overlong and peppered with wandering accents.

    Boston's criminal underworld is murky indeed. Undercover cop Billy Costigan is charged with infiltrating the mob syndicate run by mobster Costello. Meanwhile Costello's mole Colin Sullivan is working his way up the ranks of the Special Investigation Unit. The two men are consumed by their double life, but when the police and the gangster realise there is an informant in their midst, Colin and Billy are both in danger of being exposed to the enemy. So each has to race to uncover the identity of the other in order to save himself. So here it is; the movie that finally won Martin Scorsese an ... more

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Actor(s) Alec Baldwin, Ray Winstone, Martin Sheen, Matt Damon, Ray Winstone, Leonardo Di Caprio, Matt Damon, Vera Farmiga, Jack Nicholson, Martin Sheen, Mark Wahlberg, Alec Baldwin, Vera Farmiga, Jack Nicholson, Leonardo Di Caprio
Director(s) Martin Scorsese
Genre Thriller & Mystery - Thriller
Classification 18 years and over
Production Year 2006

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