Review of The Departed (2006) by Ben T — 13 Mar 2016
The Departed is the film that famously won Martin Scorsese his first Oscar, after the being nominated for The Last Temptation of Christ, Raging Bull and Goodfellas he finally won in 2006 for The Departed and he 100% deserved it because the Departed is a phenomenal film.
This is up there as one of Scorsese's best and I loved it. This film has quite possibly Scorsese's best ensemble of any of his films. Here you have Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Vera Farmiga, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen, Alec Baldwin and Ray Winstone.
Everybody here is amazing especially Jack Nicholson who gives on of his best performances as he perfectly walks that line of unlikeable and likeable. Mark Wahlberg is also amazing and was Oscar nominated for this role which is very deserved as this might be his best performance.
While those two do stand out everyone else is just so brilliant and there isn't a bad performance. This film is also fantastically directed by Scorsese who brilliantly captures the grit and atmosphere of South Boston.
He just directed this film so well. This movie is also very well written, there's lots of twists and turns that you don't see coming but also the banter between the cops, especially with Mark Wahlberg is very well written.
The cinematography by Mark Ballhuas is brilliant here, especially when the camera moves from person to person and we get zooms on people that doesn't feel annoying. This movie is also amazingly edited and I'm so happy they won the Oscar for editing.
This film has lots of Scorsese trademarks like tracking shots, voice over and very graphic violence and that just makes this film even better. The ending of this film is absolutely brilliant, all the loose ends are wrapped up and it also contains one of the most violent and suprising deaths ever that just comes out of nowhere.
Overall The Departed is a masterpiece and one of Scorsese's best. I absolutely love it and it's probably Scorsese's best modern movie and one of my all time favourite movies. A+.
This review of The Departed (2006) was written by Ben T on 13 Mar 2016.
The Departed has generally received very positive reviews.
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