Very Tragic, Very Real, Very Good

Rating: 8/10 (28 April 2007)

The Departed is a very, very good movie. Even if it is a way too long for such a genre, more than 2 hours, still, it holds together well and never gets boring. This is a joint success of the director, actors and the cameramen. Bright, vivid colors of Boston coincide with the terrible, bloody scenes of gang's shootouts. The central idea is very cute, too. One secret agent gets close to Mr. Costello, a very dangerous, bloody bandit; while Costello's man gets right into the Police, and he is very smart man, as no one can seek and destroy him. The film is a tense, brisk, fast and furious. The marvelous play of Jack Nicholson, Martin Sheen, Leonardo Di Caprio, Matt Damon, Alec Baldwin, and Mark Wahlberg adds great suspense and incredible zest to the movie. Up to the end you sit with your breath off, never knowing how it all will end up. The final is very tragic, but you have to see it yourself, because it will lose much if anybody tells you about that before. Watch it, you will not be sorry. Even if this film is so sad and offers no happy end, it stays as a bright example of a serious gangsters' movie.