leave your breath at home...

Rating: 9/10 (29 October 2006)

...cause u won't be needing it during "THE DEPARTED". well, maybe during intermission...
"THE DEPARTED" is the name of the world's newest roller-coaster,it may not be the scariest but it surly is the fastest. u don't SEE "THE DEPARTED", u RUN with it. the movie is so fast, there's something going on all the time and u have to take turns with your friends at who blinks just so u won't miss anything...
high expectations in movies are a curse cos most of the time u get disappointed. this is not the case...
where to begin? i saw "infernal affairs" like 1 year ago, i liked it but... something was missing, i couldn't quite put my finger on it, now i know what it was...Scorsese, Martin Scorsese:
those empty lines are not a mistake, i really am speechless... the man just keeps 'em coming like bullets from a tommy-gun... nothing to say, he just keeps setting higher standards for himself and just when u thought "crime movies" are a thing of the past he comes and delivers this beauty...
the acting in the movie is truly fantastic. mark walberg is both hilarious and frightening as a fast-talking, tough and yet caring detective. the same goes for Alec Baldwin who plays a small but great part. martin sheen might get nominee for his great role also.
as for the three "big guns"? well, Dicaprio keeps surprising me, he was fantastic. truly. Matt Damon was the only one that maybe, maybe was a bit less than great... he gets an "-a"... and jack? well, jack is jack...
and the best for last: William Monahan, Siu Fai Mak & Felix Chong. for writing us a film the pantheon of cinema simply had to have...
go. see it. now.