"Goodfellas 2" only that they aren't friends

Rating: 10/10 (16 September 2013)

34, 34 years of career as a filmmaker (one of the best who ever lived) Martin Scorsese after 18 films including masterpieces like "Goodfellas", "Ranging Bull" and "Taxi Driver ". In 2006, "The Departed" was the film that not only and finally gave the Oscar for Best Director to Scorsese, but it was the tribute that Scorsese did to all his work and the elements of his films that made him one of the greatest filmmakers of all time! The story takes place in the south of Boston where we find the police waging war on the Irish-American organized crime, and in the midst of all we found the rookie cop Billy Costigan (Leonardo DiCaprio) who gets in the investigation department of the investigators Queenan (Martin Sheen) and Dignam (Mark Wahlberg) and is assigned to infiltrate the mob syndicate headed by the crazy and smart Frank Costello (Jack Nicholson). Meanwhile we have the agent Colin Sullivan (Matt Damon) the protected and informant of Costello, who joined the police to be Costello's contact inside the police, where Colin throughout his career start winning important position to gather and inform Costello plans and counter-plans against Costello's business mafia. But barely both moles know that the intrigue that connects both is much more dangerous than expected and it is all connected with Costello who has more secrets that they can imagine.
"Departed" at the same time it is a new genre that Scorsese (who already had explored mafia thousands of times; the "real " death of Christ; a war hero that works in a cab and speaks to himself wearing underwear; boxing black and white; knights without armor with cars destroying asphalts; one film director who becomes schizophrenic pilot; the first new Yorkers gangs; and so on) were he gets in to, here he not only explores the genre of cop-thriller perfectly, but also makes a tribute to his old, violent, humorous style (not Tarantino, better).
Since the beginning, the film follows with a fast pace, a real pace of a thriller, but thanks to the superb script of William Monahan the movie at the same time does a certain homage to "Goodfellas" which also had a fast pace and was full of a hilarious black comedy, just like Departed. Also exploring the language and curse-language of Boston, but also the Irish language and their curse language, (one thing that at a certain point it had been explored in "Gangs of New York").
Not only is the script that makes a beautiful tribute and gives the film a great quality, but also the direction (truly deserving of an Oscar) from Scorsese, showing various places in the city of Boston and its culture (thing Scorsese has always done in his films, ALWAYS).
Direction and script on top quality, but did the cast put up with the movie? Actually they carried the movie on their back, everyone simply phenomenal: Jack Nicholson nor comments, just put another role in his resume of exuberant performances; DiCaprio as ever with a stunning performance by giving the perfect Irish Americanized accent to his character; Matt Damon fits perfectly in his role as dirty-cop since the looks and sadistic smiles; and Mark Wahlberg was the only one to be nominated by the Academy (leaving the three monsters of acting film overlooked by the academy) but it wasn't for nothing delivering a superb performance from start to finish giving the perfect Boston accent.
Hilarious, dark, nail biting thriller, the Masterpiece in which Scorsese pays tribute to his entire lineage of classic films presenting us with a beautiful direction, superb script and a luxury cast, "The Departed" it may not be the best of Scorsese, but he showed us why we love him so much and his old and many more to come movies! 10/10