If you can deal with headshots, brains splattered on walls, extremely vulgar language, and the gangster life on the big screen, The Departed is the right movie for you. The new Scorsese flick is top notch. I felt redeemed watching it, like this was supposed to be the next movie he made after Goodfellas. Scorsese does the over-the-top, violent, high profile criminal life so well, I could never figure out why he made anything else? You have to test the waters though. Luckily, Scorsese has come back to his roots for this film. Baldwin, Damon, Dicaprio, Nicholson, Sheen, and Wahlberg are playing their A game. Not one of them hogs the screen. They all own their roles. For any other director it wouldn't be the same.
"Martin Scorsese has got his groove back, or most of it, with what is arguably his best picture since GoodFellas: a big, brash, splatteringly violent mob opera starring Jack Nicholson giving it the full Pavarotti, with an outrageous and enjoyable performance that doesn't so much go over the top as go over the ionosphere." ~ Guardian Unlimited, UK
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