After watching the Oscars the other night I stumbled across a film called The Departed. I had seen this film in the video store a few times but never really thought that much of it as I hadn't heard a great deal about it, plus I never really liked Leonardo DiCaprio. Then when it won the Oscar for best motion picture I thought maybe it was worth toddling off down the video store and buying it. So off I went paying £12.99 for this DVD.

The film is about crime lords in Boston, at the beginning of the film you meet Colin Sullivan played by Matt Damon, as a young child were he meets Frank Costello, played by Jack Nicholson. The small child that plays Colin looks more like Mark Walhberg who appears in the film rather than a young Matt Damon. Frank takes Colin under his wing, as his family life is not brilliant. He tells Colin that in this life you can be whatever you want to be, you can become cops or criminals. When you're facing a loaded gun what's the difference. The film then switches to the men, as they have grown older. You see Colin in the police Academy; there we meet Billy Costigan played by Leonardo DiCaprio. Although Colin and Billy Never actually meet up in the police Academy there lives cross paths dramatically later on in the film.

So we have Billy as the police's Mole inside Frank's gang and we find out that Colin is still working for Frank as his Mole inside the Police force. What will happen as the two boys try to piece together who is who's Mole. What will Frank do if he finds out who is giving the police his dealing information? What will the Police do if they find out who is giving Frank information about police movements?

The Film has an all-star cast with some excellent actors. Leonardo DiCaprio although I have never really liked him that much plays the part of Billy well, even with the dodgy Irish Accent. He gets too far into the underground gang world and becomes mentally unstable even though he has been brought up with his whole family being criminals. Matt Damon is one Actor I do like I loved him in The Bourne films and in The Ocean films. He makes a really good cop and he actually worked with the Boston state police to review his role as Colin Sullivan. Jack Nicholson always portrays the bad guy well that's why he always plays them. His part as Frank Costello is based on the Notorious South Boston gangster Whitey Bulger. Mark Wahlberg who stared in the remake of the Italian Job does a great job as the tough sergeant Dignam. Scorsese actually wanted Ray Liotta to play the part originally but turned it down. There are some other Well-known actors who play supporting parts in the film, these include, Anthony Anderson who is stars in the Scary Movie Films, Ray Winston from the TV series Vincent, martin Sheen from the West Wing and Alec Baldwin from The Aviator. Scorsese wanted a well-known actress to play the part of Madolyn who is matt Damon's Shrink Girlfriend, but instead he chose a relatively unknown actress called Vera Farmiga who is a great actress.