Heaven has come calling for moviegoers to experience the purest, toughest and most unabashed Scorsese film since GoodFellas.
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The Departed (2006)
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Reviews Counted:225
Fresh:207
Rotten:18
Average Rating:8.2/10
Consensus: The Departed is a thoroughly engrossing gangster drama with the gritty authenticity and soupy morality that has infused director Martin Scorceses past triumphs. Featuring outstanding work from an excellent cast that includes Jack Nicholson, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Matt Damon, some critics say the film even tops its source material (the Hong Kong thriller Infernal Affairs). The Departedmarks a triumphant return to form for Scorsese; it's his best-reviewed film since GoodFellas.
Theatrical Release:Oct 6, 2006 Wide
Box Office: $132,310,442
Synopsis: Director Martin Scorsese returns to his trademark style with the violent, bruised, and bloody feature THE DEPARTED. Scorsese filched the basic storyline from Wai Keung Lau and Siu Fai Mak's... [More]
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Vera Farmiga
Director: Martin Scorsese
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Reviews for The Departed
The Departed is classic Scorsese complete with a story so dense and exciting you don't want it to end. But, when it does end, HOLY MAMA it's a good ending.
10/05/06
Martin Scorsese is a master director in every sense of the word and with the help of his ensemble has made a masterpiece of modern cinema, complete with a triple climax ending.
10/05/06
proof positive that neither Scorsese nor Nicholson have lost their touch.
10/05/06
This is remarkably compelling cinema driven by some of the best talent in the business.
10/05/06
Two and a half hours race by as this twisting, turning tale blazes its exciting, funny, brutal path.
10/05/06
Martin Scorsese is a master of the gritty crime drama and this is reminiscent of "GoodFellas" and "Mean Streets."
10/05/06
A crime drama of thrilling breadth and intensity.
10/05/06
Top CriticIt's a splendid actor's showcase and everyone in the cast comes off well.
10/05/06
It took a while, but Martin Scorsese has returned to the Mean Streets.
10/05/06
Top CriticWhat begins as a breakneck descent into blunt cruelty and moral turmoil soon morphs into a cat-and-mouse game encumbered by self-consciously overcooked extravagance.
10/05/06
A sprawling crime drama that works, when it does work, mainly as a comedy. Convoluted, confusing and full of fat, the film cries out for a trimmed down version.
10/05/06
It's a stylish head rush of a movie that flies by, even at two-and-a-half hours, and keeps turning the knife (and your stomach) up to the final scene.
10/05/06
Martin Scorsese's cubistic entertainment about men divided by power, loyalty and their own selves finds the director back on the mean streets where he belongs.
10/05/06
Too operatic at times, too in love with violence and macho posturing at others, it's a potboiler dressed up in upscale designer clothes, but oh how that pot does boil.
10/05/06
Top Critic[A] luridly entertaining gangster movie.
10/05/06
If the story suffers initially from a slight lack of focus, hang in there, because you will soon become immersed in a mesmerizing, expertly plotted cat-and-mouse game.
10/05/06
With its welter of double crosses, The Departed is completely engrossing, a master class in suspense.
10/05/06
The Departed, which screenwriter William Monahan cleverly adapted from the Hong Kong thriller Infernal Affairs, crackles right along, stopping only long enough for Scorsese's signature bursts of explosive violence.
10/05/06
Scorsese's sharpest film in a decade and the most entertaining major studio release this year.
10/05/06
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