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The Departed
The Departed is a pretty good gangland crime tale in true Martin Scorsese style, but it's not without its flaws.
Having concentrated largely on its flaws, The Departed nevertheless has much going for it. It's still well worth seeing and the long running time passes very quickly. The performances are varied, but the story's good and there are several surprises tucked away in there. Worthy, but it could have been so much better. I enjoyed this film: I think the average moviegoer will enjoy it: Testosterone Satisfaction Rating: - plenty of mafioso style action, shootings, no Reservoir Dogs style nastiness, over 200 uses of the F word. To enjoy this film you should be: paying close attention from the outset.
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Once upon a time there were two little boys who joined the police force....... but would have been better off becoming professional rat catchers.
As others have said it's a good gangland movie, the real disappointment for me was the ending, the editor & director obviously couldn't work out a better way to intelligently close the film off and as the time was running on had to get to the point sharpish. whilst it was a very good twist I still think it could have been done better.
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Firstly is the speed at which the plot begins. You'd better be paying attention or you'll lose the fact that Matt Damon is
a copper secretly playing for the bad guys, and Leonardo DiCaprio is a bad guy who's secretly a cop, and Jack Nicholson is
... umm ... is he a secretly good baddie or a secretly bad goodie? Then he beats the snot out of shiny little Leo and it
all becomes clear. Crosses and double-crosses follow, people die and it all goes a bit Scorsese towards the end. But then,
you'd be surprised if it didn't, right? What you don't expect is for two of the main characters to have such similar names
- Costillo and Costigan - adding to the confusion that was already rampant in my head. It all shook out in the end -
well, nearly all - one of the key characters we were supposed to recognise at the end looked completely unfamiliar to me -
but it shouldn't really have needed shaking in the first place. I daresay a second viewing will improve the experience,
should the opportunity arise.
Jack Nicholson is, as always, immensely watchable and never more so than when he's playing a nasty piece of work.
Matt Damon, who to me has looked like a retard ever since I saw
