Brilliant!

Rating: 10/10 (28 April 2007)

The Departed is the first Martin Scorsese film I've seen and I have to say this was brilliant. This is a great adaption of the Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs. This is well directed, well written and all of the actors were great in their roles. Leonardo DiCaprio as Billy Costigan (a rookie cop.) Matt Damon as Colin and Jack Nicholson as the evil mob boss Frank Costello. I also think it is really good how Scorsese included some clever humour. I'm not surprised that this won best picture, this is probably the best film of 2006.
This has a lot of language and violence in it, as do most of his movies.
I intend to watch more of Scorsese's films in the future. 5/5. A great return for him.