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Leonardo DiCaprio,
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Martin Scorsese,
Martin Scorsese
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: Warner Home Video
: Suspense/Thriller, Crime, Cops, Gangsters
: English, Spanish, French
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Legendary director Martin Scorsese takes the helm for this tale of questionable loyalties and blurring identities set in the South Boston organized crime scene and inspired by the wildly popular 2002 Hong Kong crime film Infernal Affairs. As the police force attempts to reign in the increasingly powerful Irish mafia, authorities are faced with the prospect of sending in an undercover agent or seeing their already frail grip on the criminal underworld slip even further. Billy Costigan (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a young cop looking to make a name for himself in the world of law enforcement. Collin Sullivan (Matt Damon) is a street-smart criminal who has successfully infiltrated the police department with the sole intention of reporting their every move to ruthless syndicate head Frank Costello (Jack Nicholson). When Costigan is assigned the task of working his way into Costello's tightly guarded inner circle, Sullivan is faced with the responsibility of rooting out the informer before things get out of hand. With the stakes constantly rising and time quickly running out for the undercover cop and his criminal counterpart, each man must work feverishly to reveal his counterpart before his identity is exposed by the other. Martin Sheen, Alec Baldwin, and Ray Winstone co-star, and writer William Monahan adapts a screenplay originally penned by Alan Mak and Felix Chong. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
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| Cursed by Oscar
by SBarnett
May 29, 2007 - 11:10 AM PDT
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4 out of 5 members found this review helpful
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| Another case where being awarded multiple Oscars creates unrealistic expectations and generates resistance. "The Departed" is a fine film, but not a great one. There is some terrific acting from Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Wahlberg, Alec Baldwin, Matt Damon, Ray Winstone, and as ever, Jack Nicholson. Walhberg is outstanding as a true Southie cop's cop--he lights up every scene he's in and becomes, ultimately, the film's hero. A number of memorable scenes: Wahlberg's dozens duet with Alec Baldwin; DiCaprio and Winstone discussing cranberry juice in a bar; Nicholson as Mephisto absorbed in opera and later, unsatisfied by the satiety he extorts; Nicholson pounding DiCaprio's broken arm; Damon's sweet old aunt (Mary Klug) smoking a cigarette while hooked up to oxygen; DiCaprio and Damon together in an elevator on the way down. It's a male film, though: the main female character is weakly developed, and the single sex scene is so inept and adolescent that it leaves you wishing they had left it out. Why is it that Scorsese shows us half a dozen people getting shot in the head but goes out of his way to avoid showing a nipple? Must violence stand for intimacy between men, and fantasy for intimacy between men and women? |
| Why all the fuss?
by wands
March 1, 2007 - 2:02 PM PST
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7 out of 11 members found this review helpful
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| Scorsese probably deserved a you-know-what award for making an ensemble cast out of a lot of high-maintenance actors (except for Nicholson, who continues to repeat his character from The Shining). Otherwise, it's a well-acted good-cops/bad-cops thriller with a slightly more complex plot than usual; but I hope the plot and the characters have little or no relationship to real life, so I hope it doesn't have much to say about the human condition. And I think the number of words in the script would have gone down by about 20% if they had dropped the words beginning fuc... - it's likely this movie sets a record for fuc...-words. Worth seeing? Yes. The most outstanding movie of 2006? Not in my book. |
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