The Departed (Two-Disc Special Edition)

Buy This Item The Departed (Two-Disc Special Edition) by Warner Home Video  Available from Amazon  $13.99  on 8-9-2008     Rookie cop Billy Costigan (Leonardo DiCaprio) grew up in crime. That makes him the perfect mole, the man on the inside of the mob run by boss Frank Costello (Jack Nicholson). It's his job to win Costello's trust and help his detective handlers (Mark Wahlberg and Martin Sheen) bring Costello down. Meanwhile, SIU officer Colin Sullivan (Matt Damon) has everyone's trust. No one suspects he's Costello's mole. How these covert lives cross, double-cross and collide is at the ferocious core of the widely acclaimed The Departed. Martin Scorsese directs, guiding a cast for the ages in a visceral tale of crime and consequences. This is searing, can't-look-away filmmaking: like staring into the eyes of a con - or a cop - with a gun. Reader Reviews OK so this isn't Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The King of Comedy or Goodfellas but its film-making in a different class from most of what comes out of Hollywood today. It doesn't quite deserve five stars but if you've given it less than three then maybe mob movies aren't your thing anyway. A cracking cast, all give fine performances. This is certainly the best thing I've seen Leonardo Decaprio do, by quite a margin. Jack Nicolson is in top form and there are some good smaller roles for both Martin Sheen and Alec Baldwin. Scorcese directs with the pace and panache that you've come to expect from the director of the five classics above. It is a remake of the Hong Kong movie "Infernal Affairs", and Scorcese gives full credit to that movie in the credits. Lets not forget that many of the classics Scorcese directed above were influenced by earlier films (see The Public Enemy 1931 as a good example). This is a hugely entertaining film and strongley recommended.

The Departed (Two-Disc Special Edition) Available from Amazon Price: $13.99 Updated on 8-9-2008.

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