The Departed: 2006 Crime Drama directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Leo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Marky Mark, Martin Sheen, Alec Baldwin, and Anthony Anderson.
Marc Horton Plot Synopsis: Leo goes undercover for the cops. Damon goes undercover for the Irish mob. A bunch of guys in horrible Boston accents yell insults at each other for being from various sides of the track. Nicholson runs the mob; he smells a rat. Mayhem ensues, with plenty of double-crosses along the way.
Like No Country for Old Men, it's slick, pointlessly violent and empty. But Hollywood ate it up, awarding Scorsese the Best Picture Oscar more or less as a lifetime Achievement Award in case he drops dead before he makes another worthy film and as an apology for stiffing him for genuine works of genius such as The King of Comedy.
By the time you get to the "surprise" ending you're exhausted and don't care.
Politically Incorrect Movie Review: The Departed should have stayed away.
8 years ago
2 comments:
Virtually all of Scorsese's films: Slick, yes. Pointlessly violent, absolutely. Empty? Rarely, and Departed certainly isn't one of them.
Has Scorsese done better films? Certainly, but he got an Oscar for Departed for all the right reasons — it was the best movie that was released by Hollywood that year.
The horrible Boston accents just add to the glorious demented nature of this film.
Nicholson: "When I tell you to put him in the maaash, then put him in the f'n maaaash." Or mangled words to that effect.
That was a funny scene, actually.
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