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The Departed

The Departed

2006
Drama, Suspense/Thriller
2h 31m
The lives of two cops: Colin Sullivan, smart and ambitious, appears to be on the fast track in the Massachusetts State Police Department, whose prime target is powerful Irish mob boss Frank Costello. Billy Costigan, street-smart and tough, is purported to have a violent temper that costs him his badge...
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The Departed

2006
Drama, Suspense/Thriller
2h 31m
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Rated 03 Mar 2007
10
98th
Everything this movie has to offer is intense. Fast paced, fun, shocking and all around cool. Much better than the original, Infernal Affairs. Script is very tight and has some sweet lines. Acting is top notch and I can't believe they didn't cast Nicholson as a menacing mob boss sooner.
Rated 11 Feb 2012
73
64th
It can't recreate the magic of Infernal Affairs, though it has its charms. Some things took me out of the movie though. Wahlberg's accent sounded more like a chant from a Lovecraft story, and Nicholson's acting is completely ridiculous. Once people started dying in the final act I didn't really care that much. Maybe because I knew what would happen, maybe because the original is a tighter film that used the paranoia angle better.
Rated 05 Mar 2007
87
87th
Martin Scorsese's best since Goodfellas (although it certainly isn't on par). Incredible all the way through, every actor was superb, the script was colourful, the action was intense.
Rated 07 Mar 2007
5
91st
I absolutely love just about everything this movie has to offer. Leonardo DiCaprio catches some flack for being basically a rich pretty boy, but he's a hell of an actor, and this is his best yet. The casting of Nicholson as a crime boss is inspired, and, as would be expected from Martin Scorsese, this movie is technically marvelous. The entire theme of identity only helps to advance a fantastic crime thriller, filled with humor, tension and great moments of sudden violence.
Rated 27 Feb 2007
80
77th
A great surprise, it almost felt like some of Scorsese's greatest work from his early carreer. The screenplay and direction are both outstanding, which leads to a powerful, amazing movie. And the last 30 minutes are a tour-de-force.
Rated 17 Feb 2007
92
92nd
Scorsese did a brilliant job on this movie. The acting was amazing all around. I particularly enjoyed Wahlberg, he performed extremely well. The script was also amazing. Everybody fit their roles perfectly and this should not be missed.
Rated 20 Nov 2008
90
96th
An instant classic, unsurprisingly seeing the cast list and the director. The film is gripping to the extreme and tensions run higher and higher as the movie goes on, thanks to the generally excellent all around acting and the direction of the very experienced Scorsese. As the tensions leads into the last section of the film it literally leaves you dumbfounded, and it's incomprehensible to think where the film might end up going. Even then it goes to places you really wouldn't have expected.
Rated 25 Feb 2007
83
88th
It's nice to Scorsese operating in a genre he's comfortable with. The film is tense, gritty, and gripping, with great performances all around; my only complaint is that the film didn't have the same distinctive elegance and style that elevated Goodfellas. Except for the soundtrack, Departed isn't as obviously a Scorsese film, and while others may like this, I kind of miss it.
Rated 02 Mar 2007
97
96th
Best damn movie I've seen in a long time.
Rated 27 Feb 2007
83
79th
I really, really enjoyed absolutely every bit of it up to the ending. My complaint with it is not the end result but how quickly it was reached. The movie is over 2 hours long and the ending wraps up the movie in what seems like 5 minutes. It just feels rushed and really left me disappointed. Still, everything up to that point was excellent: the acting, the story, the dialog, everything.
Rated 27 Feb 2007
72
81st
A closeted gay man associates himself with an older, closeted bisexual man, but struggles to satisfy a woman, who eventually realises she has allowed herself to be deceived into believing that his career success was enough to mean that he embodied an acceptable version of masculinity. My recollection is that in 2006 no critics acknowledged that this film is about the relationship between sexual orientation, sexual performance, social convention and cultural expectations of fathering sons.
Rated 14 Aug 2008
96
97th
Wahlberg and DiCaprio are the standouts, delivering the greatest and most mature performances of their respective careers to this point. It's a cat and mouse game as two undercover men within the Mass. state police and the Irish mafia try to discover their enemy's identities. It's Scorsese's re-telling of the Chinese Infernal Affairs, but despite borrowing from the overall storyline it has a look and feel all its own. There are few films in existence with a final 30 minutes as intense as this.
Rated 06 Mar 2016
90
92nd
MAHKY MAHK.
Rated 24 Feb 2007
86
92nd
I'm really trying not to rate this too highly (as that tends to happen when you just see a movie), but it was excellent. There wasn't a bad performance in the movie, and DiCaprio really stole the show. Amazing story, interesting characters, and an ending that doesn't disappoint (unless that type isn't your cup of tea). If you like Scorsese, you'll like the Departed.
Rated 17 Feb 2014
90
87th
This film ostensibly takes place in Boston, yet I don't think I saw a single garage tattoo or pregnant teenager in the entire movie. The characters are clean, articulate, and entirely too creative with their vulgarity. As a Boston movie, Casey Affleck's older brother's Gone Baby Gone hits closer to reality. But as a Boston gangster fantasy, the kind that gets white Americans excited about their remote Irish heritage and distant relation to Whitey Bulger, it's absolutely sensational.
Rated 03 Mar 2007
90
94th
Easily Scorsese's best since GoodFellas. It's gripping, suspenseful, tight, funny, and just damn good. I really enjoyed it. This is virtuoso editing, maybe even better than Schoonmaker's work on Taxi Driver. It's bold and surprising and greatly adds to the storytelling.
Rated 29 Apr 2008
5
93rd
Among Scorsese's great works, regardless of its status as a remake. A visceral and amusing crime story, wherein duplicitous identity games are the playing field of machismo displays... which may in fact be a little gay. And though it operates on dramatic irony, by which the viewer knows what the characters don't, the plot takes unexpected and engaging swerves, and its swift and brutal resolution is antithetical to typical Hollywood formulas.
Rated 22 Feb 2008
45
1st
*****Spoliers***** How did so many people like this movie. It was boring, and, well, boring. I kept waiting for it to get better. Only good thing about it is everyone dies in the end.
Rated 17 May 2008
92
99th
Martin Scorsese makes a movie that is so great that it will forever have a place in history, and not for the first time, either.
Rated 04 Mar 2008
99
97th
The Academy actually knows what a good movie is!
Rated 13 May 2008
98
97th
This movie blew my dumb ass away... Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Wahlberg have officially won me over. An incredibly tense, exciting, and emotional film.
Rated 26 Jan 2007
85
73rd
It isn't perfect, but it's so entertaining, well made and multi-faceted that it may as well be. I'd say it's about as good as Goodfellas, and in some ways it's a more meaningful piece of work. The cast is simply wonderful.
Rated 07 Mar 2007
83
93rd
First and foremost, this movie is a bona-fide wonder for keeping you on the very edge of your seat for over two hours. The suspense is maddening. The story is very theatrical, very deliberate, very obviously symmetrically devised, but it still works well and never seems contrived. This is Scorsese's most exhilirating work and I think his finest since Raging Bull. Fantastic editing and cast.
Rated 14 Jun 2009
95
94th
Fast-paced, dynamic, colorful, and raw, The Departed takes a simple premise and turns it into an intense crime thriller, thanks to a perfect script brought to life by a legendary director. And seriously, have you ever seen a better cast? There wasn't one character in this film that wasn't memorable.
Rated 29 Mar 2011
90
93rd
If you were ever watching a movie and thought, "I wonder what this would be like if everyone just got shot in the head" then this movie is for you.
Rated 05 May 2007
100
93rd
Not since GOODFELLAS has Scorcese portrayed the corruption of the human soul so deftly.Great twists and turns abound.
Rated 31 Jul 2007
63
27th
Greatly overrated, this movie is neither exciting nor clever, although it tries to be both. The first half is boredom at its worst. It gets better later on, but still nothing exceptional.
Rated 03 Jun 2009
100
99th
I love this movie and it is the best thirller-crime movies of my time. The script is amazing, the casting is perfect and the acting is brilliant.
Rated 28 Jul 2010
10
1st
The "plot" develops like this: a man enters a guy's room, says various things about the vagina of the guy's wife, the other talks about the way he's gonna treat his rectum and then they kill each other. Baldwin is ridiculous as usual, Nicholson is spitting on his past, Farmiga is screaming at her anus. What stands out is the very good Mark Wahlberg and the fine score.
Rated 07 Apr 2008
60
15th
It's like Scorsese and Monahan took Infernal Affairs and thought, "How can we express our lack of imagination WHILST pandering to Western audiences' false sense of sophistication?" The 60 points are for the early funnies as well as the hot therapist and my lack of association with her as a million other better characters.
Rated 03 Aug 2009
52
27th
original is much superior, all the things that are changed in this remake are the worst parts of the film, Scorsese has so many better films than this one...
Rated 14 Aug 2007
93
94th
With a cast that lets you know the movie is a big deal, it's easy to have high hopes when going to see a movie like this. The Deaparted goes beyond those expectations. Unlike too many others, Martin Scorsese did a brilliant job of putting everyone in their right place. Every actor fits perfectly into their role, and their outstanding performances help to make this fast-paced thriller worth seeing many times. Awesome!
Rated 16 Feb 2007
77
60th
Strictly worse than Infernal Affairs.
Rated 22 Aug 2009
70
38th
I don't care if the film itself is good. Absolutely zero creativity or risk taking involved in making it. Simply rip off a popular Japanese crime drama (many scenes are IDENTICAL to the original), use household name actors, and with Scorsese directing how could this not be a huge hit? You would think that at this point in Scorsese's career that he would have the funding and artistic freedom to fulfill his greatest directorial ambitions, but he instead takes the easy route and banks once again
Rated 02 Jun 2011
85
87th
Most notable for its depiction of the utopian office environment: world-class swearers with a get shit done attitude. I can only dream of Wahlberg as our office manager.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
79
83rd
Watch this for Scorsese's effortless style. Watch this for the delicious performances by a fantastic cast. Watch this for the well-orchestrated plot and gripping tension. Watch this because it is one of the best thrillers of the year.
Rated 25 Jul 2010
95
88th
Scorsese's style and the cast's performances make this film one of last decade's greatests
Rated 28 Sep 2010
41
25th
This is possibly the worst edited blockbuster I've ever seen and I say that with total conviction. Then I find out it got an Oscar for just that? That's seriously hilarious. I mean, what, all you gotta do is cut loudly mixed music in and out whenever you feel like it and you're a fucking artistic genius? Fuck you.
Rated 23 Sep 2008
87
90th
Really good movie, but, sorry, Martin Scorsese shouldn't have gotten the Oscar for this movie, but a very long time before that...
Rated 14 Aug 2007
96
95th
Great performances in the masterful hands of Scorsese makes this a tense and, yes, FUN, 'Good Guys/Bad Guys' film that will remind every guy of playing these characters in his own 'make-believe' youth...
Rated 17 Oct 2007
70
16th
Ok, it's Scorsese finally getting an Oscar, but, man, this has got to be one of the most telegraphed and crappy efforts of his career. The great cast puts in some decent performances, but this film pales in comparison to Scorsese's better efforts.
Rated 21 Oct 2012
40
4th
"The Departed" was a movie whose premise did not measure up to it's length. Once a viewer has determined who are the good guys and who are the bad guys, then the movie just drags along until near the end. The only sparkling light in this film was Leonardo Dicaprio's performance. His scenes were the most intense and well acted, and the only ones really worth watching at all.
Rated 21 Sep 2010
92
98th
Sheer entertainment on all levels. Star studded cast works well together (even Wahlberg). Scorcese's best in a long time.
Rated 05 Jan 2007
95
99th
Return to some form by Scorcese and another film which I like DI Caprio in. Lordy.
Rated 12 Feb 2007
90
97th
What a terrific movie. One of Scorcese's best movies, and definitely better than anything he did in the last 10 years. The dialog is incredible - so sharp and funny, I was smiling at almost every point of the movie. But besides the humor there are amazingly tense moments, specifically every single time Sullivan and Costigan meet. The setup for these two characters is so genius, I am amazed no one thought of this before Internal Affairs. The movie gets a little too long at the end, but it's st
Rated 30 Jun 2009
70
41st
The first half hour is a pretty motley grab-bag (and could've been excised/shortened). But then it tightens up quite a bit...and all cylinders are firing in the acting department (except for Wahlberg, who is notably miscast). Nicholson leads the league with a wonderfully low-key performance. But then, with all the twists and turns, it started to lose me (the elevator scene looked like a Tarantino parody). The suddenly matter of fact style didn't help either. By the finale, it just seemed silly.
Rated 15 Feb 2015
83
82nd
Rewatch. First time in about seven years and I'm so glad I went back to it. It's Scorsese not only adapting a Hong Kong police thriller, but acing the style, the editing, the beats, everything.
Rated 21 Jul 2009
92
96th
Scorsese yet again is able to create an intense, gripping crime flick. The whole cast performed admirably, and Wahlberg provides his best performance yet. One of the best of '06.
Rated 06 Mar 2007
99
98th
Unbelievably, DiCaprio tops his work in Aviator. Damon, Wahlberg and Sheen are superb, and Nicholson steals every scene he's in. The direction is gritty and intense, the story is intricate and creative, and the film itself is incredible.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
70
58th
I think I missed something. While I thought it had great performances by the leads, and the directing was top-notch, it kept ideas and themes, which ended up feeling as it lacked focus. However, A good cops and robbers and cop who are robbersr tale. A definite improvement over "Infernal Affairs". Although, the ending's "resolutions" were ridiculous.
Rated 18 Mar 2007
97
97th
One of the best Scorsese movies ever made and certainly among the best of the new millenium. The Departed is an absolute masterpiece.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
78
66th
Some amazing scenes, performances and cuts - but you can't help but feel like Scorsese could've gotten more out of the source material. It's terrific entertainment, but it falls short of his very best, richest work.
Rated 13 May 2007
92
95th
Excellent idea for a plot and some really great (subtle) camera work. DiCaprio does a really great job and Nicholson is, well, Nicholson.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
95
99th
Some say it's Scorsese's best since Goodfellas. I think it's his best, period.
Rated 08 Apr 2012
80
88th
It's great allright, but the only reason it won the Oscar was due to a really weak field of nominees. Wahlberg in an obvious Joe Pesci role is worth it alone.
Rated 03 Sep 2012
70
65th
A fine ripof--remake, sorry, that hints at being a slightly lesser film than the Asian original. So there. Oh! It does have one peculiar feature: Have you ever heard of the experiment of the one million monkeys in one million editing suites? So this is what the 999.999th monkey handed in. Then it started flinging his own feces at whoever had cast Jack Nicholson.
Rated 17 Jul 2009
80
84th
Too long, the ending was disappointing, but the energy it built up before letting down was impressive in its own way.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
99
98th
Should be a 100. Only loses a point for the lack of sense of Time.
Rated 21 Mar 2007
94
97th
One of Scorsese's most entertaining thrillers, a great Best Picture winner featuring two standout performances from Mark Wahlberg and Leonardo DiCaprio. One of 2006's best.
Rated 21 May 2007
14
75th
Deserves to be regarded as highly as Scorsese's greats, it really does. Slick, exciting, tense: certainly one of the best thrillers of the year and probably ever.
Rated 19 Jan 2009
94
95th
Plot holes galore, but the film is so tightly wound that you barely have time to notice. Scorcese keeps it moving with a slick style boasting masterful camera movements and editing. But the movie is carried by its excellent performances from the entire cast. Wahlberg really shines, and I was quite impressed with Farmiga as well. It's certainly not the movie Marty deserved his first Oscar for, but it's never too late and this is a worthy effort. Ace entertainment.
Rated 04 Mar 2007
80
71st
Scorsese takes a better-than-average Hong Kong film and gives it his divine touch. Quite the winner.
Rated 03 Feb 2011
82
76th
A great offering from Scorsese, the amazing cast (besides Wahlberg) takes an average story and turns it into a great one.
Rated 01 Jun 2011
84
87th
Great performances. I truly loved this film because it's more complex than other ones in its genre. Normally we get to see a fairly simple film about an infiltrant in the mafia or the Bureau, but in this flick we see an interesting pair of collusions of which we never think they're boring of over the top.
Rated 28 Mar 2012
95
99th
Extremely entertaining, amazing work from the entire cast, one of the greatest improvised scenes of all time between Nicholson and DiCaprio, but what does fack mean? They say it a lot.
Rated 08 Jan 2016
100
99th
The big three are in this film, Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, and Jack Nicholson. This film has the strongest cast I've ever seen along with one of the greatest stories of all time. Another perfect Leo movie.
Rated 22 Apr 2009
95
99th
DeCaprio's performance was top notch, and the ending always gets me. Mark Walhberg was good too, such an asshole.
Rated 06 Mar 2007
55
33rd
This is what Infernal Affairs would look like if you took away all the style and suave of the characters and replaced it all with needless character development that doesn't work and lots of swearing. It's a decent enough remake, but ultimately it's mediocre when compared to the source material. Mark Wahlberg is the only really good thing about this when you compare it to Infernal Affairs.
Rated 25 Feb 2009
20
5th
Sorry, sensationalized violence and people laughing at gore is not my idea of a good movie. I pretty much hate Mark Wahlberg and my opinions of everyone else in this movie have declined ever since.
Rated 01 Sep 2009
85
80th
1/9/9 - Some pacing issues (the middle drags and the end is rushed), but a great twisiting plot and lots of excellent performances.
Rated 15 Dec 2011
100
99th
Yet another great film by the master Scorsese. This film has a great script, the story keeps you glued to your seat. The actors really work well together.
Rated 27 Aug 2009
96
80th
With its coloful use of language and the constant bickering amoung the police at the Massachusettes State Police Department, this movie will not only keep you strapped to your seat, it will also make you laugh. Jack Nicholson's did an incredible job portraying the crazy mob boss who bascially ran the city. Alec Baldwin also did a great job illustrating his character as the hard-ass policeman.
Rated 06 Feb 2010
35
5th
Strong performances by Damon and DiCaprio are wasted in this convoluted, tedious mess. Features an awful scenery-chewing turn by Nicholson and the most laugh-out-loud ridiculous final shot you'll ever see.
Rated 27 Aug 2009
90
14th
Great crime movie with mutliple twists and unexpected turns. The story between good cop and bad cop is incredibly creative as well as suspenseful. The romance displays the struggle to show one's true self, and how to protect those you love. Phenomenal movie I highly recommend it!
Rated 04 Dec 2009
95
96th
Probably my favorite Scorsese movie.
Rated 01 Feb 2017
100
99th
Brutal and melancholic, but not dark/grim. It has a fast style and never, ever feels boring.
Rated 25 Feb 2007
65
32nd
An above-average but forgettable crime flick that wouldn't have gotten the attention it had if it weren't directed by Scorsese. Ultimately it's one of his least interesting films.
Rated 22 May 2015
90
96th
100th
Rated 04 Oct 2009
95
98th
I can't believe I'm saying this, but I actually prefered this remake to the original Infernal Affairs.
Rated 24 Feb 2010
80
44th
Decent appropriation of Nicholson's inappropriate scene chewing ruined by a parade of awful accents.
Rated 26 May 2010
95
96th
I'd already written a review for this after my first viewing of the film. I gave it a 90 and praised just about every aspect of the film. Well, now I'm going to give it a 95 and praise every aspect of the film a little bit more. The cast is absolutely superb, with brilliant performances all around. Even Alec Baldwin squeezes out a decent performance. Alec Baldwin! I thought he was only good in 30 Rock. A real achievement for Scorsese, proving to the world he's still the man to watch.
Rated 07 Dec 2011
100
99th
A complicated web of deceipt of corruption, violence crafted with twists and turns throughout. Many have chosen the original Chinese version of the story 'Infernal Affairs' to be the best version and usually in most cases I believe the original to be the best, but have to say 'The Departed' marginally scores better with me and is a very worthy Scorsese masterpiece. Probably the best Hollywood gangster movie since Goodfellas, with a gifted all star cast, with a superb performance by Jack
Rated 10 Jan 2007
93
93rd
I may go so far as to say it's Scorsese's best, or at least in a long time. Brilliantly acted by all the main players with a great soundtrack and an utterly compelling plot that grabs hold and doesn't let go.
Rated 11 Nov 2008
55
56th
I hate Mark Wahlberg so, so much. Takes Infernal Affairs (great movie) and adds a ton of unnecessary bloat. I guess I was the only person on the planet that was bored to tears during this. Oh well.
Rated 12 Feb 2007
95
96th
Good god this movie rules. Too long but everything works. And god bless you, Marky Mark.
Rated 29 Nov 2010
76
75th
Good intense thriller with an excellent cast.
Rated 13 May 2015
8
77th
You should know if someone in your organization is a mole, simply because you won't recognize the smell of their farts. It just smell...off.
Rated 21 Mar 2008
73
51st
Less clever than it think it is.
Rated 06 Oct 2009
60
41st
They gave him his Oscar for THIS? It's tragic that one of Scorsese's weakest films finally got the honour he deserved for an earlier movie - alas the politics of the Academy Awards. The film is ok, what it takes from Infernal Affairs seem to be the stronger elements. I wasn't convinced by any of the acting and found Nicholson particularly poor.
Rated 24 Oct 2012
50
8th
With some hokey acting, dodgy editing, and replacing the cleverness and slick drama of the original with more vulgar violence, this movie has me worried over the state of American movies verus foreign. Especially because of all the praise it got. It's better to stick with Infernal Affairs, unless you can't watch a movie with subtitles.
Rated 26 Dec 2006
88
74th
A great, twisty crime flick peppered by incredible supporting performances (best: Mark Wahlberg. No, really!) and thrills that don't resort to long, drawn-out shootouts we've seen a hundred times before.
Rated 17 Mar 2015
84
83rd
Matt Damon, Alec Baldwin, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Mark Wahlberg. It took every last ounce of testosterone I had to remain straight after this one.
Rated 25 Feb 2007
83
87th
A very interesting film about betrayal, double agents, crime, and the police. It's definitely worth seeing at least once, though I expect it would lose something in multiple viewings. The acting is quite impressive, DiCaprio is actually good even compared with Nicholson. Needless to say, Scorsese and his editor have gotten impressive preformances all around.
Rated 29 Jun 2012
96
98th
As much as I love this movie, which I do, it's important to remember that it's really, when it all comes down to it, a remake of an already great movie. Most of what makes "The Departed" great comes from it's Chinese original, "Infernal Affairs". But to be fair, The Departed does everything a remake is supposed to do: keep all the best elements of the original and improve on it's flaws. Toward that end, Scorsese's film is an improvement, and may just be the best example of a remake.
Rated 08 Jul 2016
9
92nd
The double-deception plot is almost too perfect, given all the suspense and intrigue it generates, and with DiCaprio's violent Billy and Damon's more subtly unscrupulous Colin, offers a nuanced take on good guy and bad guy archetypes that's further complicated by a smoky love triangle sub-plot and capped off by a bloody, twist-filled final act (the last shot was admittedly a bit much). Colourful dialogue and great gritty music and cinematography round out this impeccably acted crime drama.
Rated 13 Nov 2008
80
66th
only saw bits of it but seemed really good
Rated 06 Mar 2011
96
81st
I remember seeing trailers for this movie and having reservations about it. I don't know why exactly, but I was completely foolish. My favorite film of '06 and what I believe to be one of Scorsese's top 5 (keep in mind I've never seen the Korean original). Every person involved is in top form, from DiCaprio all the way down to Mark Rolston. Just a pure joy to watch.
Rated 18 May 2007
95
99th
Scorsese , Nicholson , Dicaprio , Damon , Wahlberg and Farmiga. Couldn't go wrong. The scene with Wahlberg vs Baldwin talking trash was funny. Overall great acting and action.
Rated 16 Sep 2007
95
99th
Brilliant film that features terrific acting and some of Scorsese's best directing.
Rated 15 Feb 2007
80
77th
Good god everyone in this movie is capable of headshots! It was unbelievable how many people needlessly died. Not my cup of tea at all, though I can appreciate how well it was made.

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