A good return of the old Scorsese

Rating: 10/10 (6 October 2006)

The Departed starts out with a scene that Scorsese does well. the mob boss walking through a shop, paying for other people things, and acting in charge of things. We soon meet the young Matt Damon character that grows up to be a cop that's in bed with the Irish mob. Then, we meet Leonardo DiCaprio's character, a cop who got kicked out of the police academy who gets a second chance to work against the mob. The story move right into story before you know it. Matt Damon's is soon a detective, with a kick ass apartment over looking Boston. For Leonardo, things are so smooth. Getting a chance to get at the Irish mob, he soon takes. When the mob boss, Jack Nicholson, asks Matt Damon's character to find out who the other cop is.
The story does one thing very well that original Chinese movie 'Infernal Affairs' did, also. The quick story pace. Of course Scorsese being Scorsese the story won't hang in a nothing scene. I love the differences from the original movie, and LOVED the fact that Scorsese didn't go through the Italian route. It was a very nice change, and a nice look back at what he was doing in the seventies and on. the movie provided a very well written story, and the movie was very well acted. This, I hope, will beat that Oliver Stone melodrama. 10 out of 10.