Excellent Film with an Excellent Cast

Rating: 10/10 (26 December 2019)

The Departed is one heck of a film that has a fantastic cast, a great story, and has another awesome direction by Martin Scorsese.
The Departed is about a cop, Billy (Leonardo Dicaprio), goes under cover on a case to infiltrate an organization led by Frank Costello (Jack Nicholson), who is a gangster. While this is going on, a career criminal, Colin (Matt Damon) infiltrates a police department and reports suspicious activities to his bosses. Billy and Colin then have to analyze each other's identities to save their lives as they find out there's a mole in their midst.
The Departed is an awesome film. The cast is easily the best part of the whole film. Dicaprio, Damon, Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, Alec Baldwin, Martin Sheen, and Anthony Anderson are some of the great names in this great movie. They all do a great job and play some really good characters. I think this is DiCaprio's second best film (first being Wolf of Wall Street), and had a top notch performance.
The story was very good. It can be confusing in parts here and there, but it still manages to be very entertaining for a crime film. The pacing also went very smooth for 2 and a half hours at least.
All in all, The Departed is yet another fantastic Scorsese film that could easily be the 2nd best film of 2006 (first being Casino Royale).