This is some tense stuff

Rating: 8/10 (13 April 2015)

I'd heard a major spoiler before seeing "The Departed" several years back, which I honestly though ruined the movie. But the death of that primary character was only a small piece of it. Most of the time with this movie, you're just wondering which "something bad" is going to happen to DiCaprio. I mean, the walls just do not stop closing in on this guy. Scorsese lays on the dread something fierce. But those last ten minutes of the film are on twist after the next, just one character turning on another. And even today, I was caught right up in it, as if I'd never seen this before.
Plot twists aside (and they happen like shotgun blasts), "The Departed" sells itself with its roster of actors. I mean, just look at this cast. Not to mention the sizzling dialogue. I dunno if crime epic is the right phrase for this, but it's definitely a killer cop/mob movie.
8/10