By Far the best of the new millennium

Rating: 10/10 (4 July 2008)

I love this movie, and think it's not only one of the best gangster film's of all time but probably the best movie since LOTR 1. For me movie's have been getting boring in the past few years. Very plain plot line's and bad acting. But every once in a while a movie comes out and just blows me away. in 2000 i was blown away by Gladiator and Erin Brokovich, in 01 there was a beautiful mind and LOTR in 03 Lost in translation. But the past four years have been fairly good and then the failures started up; Date Movie, Epic Movie, Basic Instinct 2, The Wickerman, and many others. by that time I'd given up spending my money on going to see movies at the theater so when this came out on DVD I was blown away and my faith in movies was restored.
The acting is spectacular,and to paraphrase SOMS The Departed is like the Godfather, intensified. I'm definitely not saying its better than the Godfather but it's still great. Jack Nicholson does fabulously has Costello the crime boss. There's no way anyone could tell that he was an informer and he does a great job being the puppeteer of the whole operation. Matt Damon and Leo Dicaprio were great has the rats and you could feel how hard it was for Leo to deal with the pressure.
My Personal favorite character and many people agree with me on this was Staff Sargent Dignam played by Mark Walberg. He is amazing and is great in the interview's at the beginning and right at the very end when he kills Colin. He deserved his Oscar Nod for it although he didn't deserve the win(Alan Arkin was just to damn good).
Overall My favorite movie of the decade are: 5,Erin Brokovich 4,Ray, 3, Little Miss Sunshine, 2, No Country for Old Men and 1, The Departed.