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Sunday September 30, 2007 - 1:54 AM
ABSolutely riveting, perfect.
Thursday September 27, 2007 - 11:06 AM
Fucking amazing movie. Keeps you guessing and shocks the shit out of you a few times.
Wednesday July 04, 2007 - 9:00 PM
I would have given this probably a 4 outta 5 if it wasn't for the fuckin ending. The ending RUINED this movie for me. It was really good up until then so I was quite disappointed.
Monday May 14, 2007 - 4:21 PM
First off, let me say that the Chinese version of this movie which has three parts; Infernal Affairs I, II and III, is MUCH better than the western version. Maybe I'm biased, or maybe it's because Infernal Affairs goes into much more detail as it spans three separate movies. I still give The Departed four stars though. Leo is amazing. Matt Damon pulls off his accent very well.
Wednesday March 07, 2007 - 12:49 PM
This movie was okay. Just okay. It was not, by any stretch of the imagination, worthy of both best picture and best director at the oscars.
While the acting was good, the characters were silly - they weren't characters, they were charicatures. They were exaggerated stereotypes. Jack Nicholson, as always, chewed every scene he was in. It was overly violent, and the violence wasn't even effective: I'll compare it to Babel in this sense. I watched both of these movies on DVD, one after the other. The Departed, I sat through and enjoyed, and afterwards I said "that was fun." I watched Babel, and it was painful - these were real people, in pain. Cate Blanchett wasn't Cate Blanchett - she was Susan, an American woman in the Middle East, suffering from a gun-shot. Whereas Leonardo Dicaprio was just Leonardo Dicaprio, looking tough. And I'm not saying it was his fault - it was just not real. It wasn't convincing.
Honestly, in a year with such amazingly brilliant movies like The Queen, Pan's Labyrinth, and Children of Men, this movie did not deserve what it won, and it did not deserve it's acclaim.
Tuesday March 06, 2007 - 11:17 AM
Tuesday March 06, 2007 - 9:12 AM
Sunday March 04, 2007 - 9:02 PM
Great movie up to the ending, it's like "Fuck, were running outof funds, lets just make this ending fast by killing everyone, deal?"
Great detail, great plot, very realisitc, but a stupid fucking ending.
This movie could have been great by simply adding an alternant ending like many dvds do on their special features.
Three out of five.
Sunday March 04, 2007 - 8:07 PM
This movie was awsome. I thought it had one of the best endings to a movie that I have seen in a long long time. It was pretty cool that it had a lot of big named actors in it. I think the movie turned out great and can't wait until I get paid so I can buy it ha ha.
Sunday March 04, 2007 - 6:42 PM
Loved it. It deserved the Best Director and Best Picture Oscars that it got. Great cast. Great Storyline.
Sunday March 04, 2007 - 5:04 PM
Slightly overated but most certainly good. Beaner sucks.
Thursday March 01, 2007 - 4:30 PM
Sweet movie. Plenty o' twists. Crazy ending.
Thursday March 01, 2007 - 1:48 PM
Excellent movie. Dialogue was quick and smart. Intense story line. Lots of sneaking and lying keeps the plot fresh as it thickens. Ending could have been better.
Friday February 23, 2007 - 4:40 PM
I have to tell you the truth. I didn't want to see this movie in the first place but my mom wanted to and she asked me, blah blah blah. By the end of it I have to say it left me shocked and happy to have watched it. The characters were a little over the top but because of my own sense of humour I believe they were quite funny at parts. the storyline was pretty good and at some parts I didn't know what was going to happen next which made for a very enjoying movie experience all in all. I would give this movie 4 stars because of all the crazy shit you never see coming, and if you like Martin Scorsese's movies, I think you may be a little unsatisfied but at the end come to the conclusion that it wasn't a total loss.
Monday February 19, 2007 - 5:54 PM
best movie to come out in 2006!
highly recommend it
Monday February 19, 2007 - 5:06 PM
Best movie that I've seen in the theatres in the past year ever!
mmmm.... longest too..
but so worth the 3ish hours in the cinema!
Monday February 19, 2007 - 4:42 PM
FUCKIN GANGSTA.....ALMOST EVERYONE IN DIS IS BOD!
Monday February 19, 2007 - 12:53 PM
 wow this movie is absolutely nuts!!!  it has some very big names as stars and they all give a great performance. it had me glued the whole time and i am still thinkin about it today!
Sunday February 18, 2007 - 8:57 PM
amazing movie..... excellent..... all the actors played their parts very well...... u really have to pay attention to the movie.... one of scorsese's best movie
Sunday February 18, 2007 - 7:56 PM
I have just finished watching "The Departed" starring Jack Nicholson, Leonardo Dicaprio, Mark Wahlberg and Matt Damon. It takes place in South Boston. It is full of the mob, undercover police and needless to say blood and guts.
The Boston state police are trying to crack down on organized crime. Well... this does happen. But in a poor manor.
The police end up getting spies into the mob, and in turn the mob finds out and gets pissed. What happens next? A full out war. Everyone dies! Ya, it is 2 and a half hours of shooting everyone in sight. Oh and yelling. Don't forget the yelling and panic.
Wednesday February 14, 2007 - 11:42 AM
Very long but soooo good! Never saw so many people die in a movie 
Friday February 09, 2007 - 5:35 PM
Amazing movie. Amazing acting. Should win every award it can.
Monday December 11, 2006 - 8:49 PM
Bad-ass movie. Jack gave an absolutely stellar performance.
Kudos to Leo, too. I didn't know he actually had talent, haha.
Thursday November 09, 2006 - 3:24 PM
this movie was greattttttt
Monday November 06, 2006 - 9:23 AM
Amazing Movie such a great cast. I highly recomend it to anyone that like Mob Movies
Monday October 23, 2006 - 1:39 PM
Definitly a good movie. The ending is what I didn't like at all. I don't want to ruin the ending for anyone, but it was definitly something that you wouldn't expect. I really enjoyed the fact that there was Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio all in one movie. Such good work was done. See it if you haven't.
Friday October 20, 2006 - 12:07 AM
What a phenomonal film! Personally, I really dig cop movies but this one was special. In case you don't know, it's about a mole in the Mass. state troopers (Matt Damon) and a mole in the Boston Irish mob (Leo DiCaprio) and the intrigue surrounding.
I've never been a big fan of DiCaprio cause I keep picturing that shit-pile of a movie Titanic, but this was awesome. He pulls off the Irish thing perfectly and the movie has so much intrigue that you're never quite sure what's coming next or who's gonna get their shit blown away... unless you've seen the original Chinese film, Infernal Affairs.
Nicholson is a great bad-guy (as usual) opposite Martin Sheen's Police captain, and gives a really good performance. Not one of his mail-it-in, cheque cashings like some recent movies.
I don't wanna give anything away, but let's just say that The Departed takes the gritty cop film to a whole other level. Blood and guts, high drama, surprises, suspense, a blazing gunfight. It has it all.
Anyways, I would tell anyone to see this movie, except for the squeemish... actually, I'd tell them to get over themselves, be a man and watch the fucking movie, and I'd drop my "R"s and do it with a South Boston accent. How do ya like them apples!?!
Tuesday October 17, 2006 - 1:21 PM
The Departed is a remake of the 2002 Hong Kong cinematic smash Infernal Affairs about two individuals working undercover within the mob and police force. The story traces the lives of the two moles, their history, motivations, desires, and race to discover the identity of the other in a battle of good and evil where all the lines are blurred. The Departed has a 30 min longer running time than Infernal Affairs because it encompasses all of Infernal Affairs and parts of Infernal Affairs 2 (The prequel).
There were a good number of scenes in The Departed that were almost shot for shot identical to Infernal Affairs, it is proof that powerful cinematography transcends cultural barriers. But naturally some poignant dialogue had to be changed as its meaning was lost in translation otherwise.
The two cops in charge – Martin Sheen & Mark Wahlberg, had some changes made to them in the Hollywood version. I absolutely loved Mark Wahlberg’s character, he was the single best written character in The Departed. His character was kept alive to the very end in order to wrap up things up neatly in Scorsese’s vision, which by the way, is the first time I’ve seen Hollywood up the body count from an Asian film version.
The scene I hated most in The Departed was the scene in which they exchanged the microchips with the Chinese gangsters. First of all, why electronics/microchips? That speaks of James Bond and espionage to me, it should be drugs or weapons otherwise it’s just not the mob in my eyes. And why make the exchange with the Chinese? Especially ones that spoke simplified bungling Cantonese? It completely destroyed the image of Asian gangster slick for me. I really could’ve done without Chinese characters at all instead of this quarter-assed (not even half-assed!) tribute to the movie’s original heritage.
On the flipside, The Departed really got it right by combining the two female characters from Infernal Affairs – Tony Leung’s psychologist and Andy Lau’s fiancée. I always thought Andy Lau’s fiancée in Internal Affairs was a really pointless role. By combining the characters in The Departed, it compacted the story and provided a connection between the two main characters. Vera Farmiga also gave a very good performance.
Overall, The Departed was a bit too long for my liking. The first third of the movie (the part taken from Infernal Affairs 2) was slow and I thought for the most part it was unnecessary. Infernal Affairs conveyed the story and the history of the two men just fine without revealing that portion to the audience; The Departed could have done the same. I would have to say I still enjoyed the original Infernal Affairs much more, but as far as remakes go, this one is actually fairly impressive.
Monday October 16, 2006 - 6:51 PM
i liked it, but i hated the ending.
plot was good. a bit confusing at times.
matt damon is a fucking creep.
all in all, decent
Sunday October 15, 2006 - 7:31 PM
great movie, i must say, but i don't really know if i like scorcese's new direction.
the characters were properly developed and introduced. it is a truly all star team - matt damon, leonardo di caprio, alec baldwin, mark wahlberg and of course, jack nicholson.
the only major theme of the film was both sides weren't all that different from eachother. thus, the "great equalizing" resolution made perfect sense, and was the best part of the movie.
the casual racism in the film was a little unsettling. is that a boston thing or are they just establishing who the "bad" characters are? jack nicholson's character was also money as per usual. having seen leo in aviator and now this, pretty much his best two performances ever.
i think, overall, my favorite character in the whole movie is alec baldwin's character. the dude just has me in stitches every time he's on screen. i especially love the part where he says "we're gonna get these cocksuckers" or something like that, and then grabs his nuts.
**SPOILER**
the ending was maybe a bit over the top when most of the cast die in like a 20 minute period. and for those who don't think it's good i'll quote walhbergs character: maybe, maybe not, maybe go fuck yourself 
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