The Departed

Rating: 7/10 (7 January 2007)

I had seen the trailer of this movie when I was in India  during seeing a Hindi movie "Dor". At that time I had decide to see this movie. The temptations were many. First, it is a movie made by Martin Soccerer. It has a wonderful star cast  Leonardo Decapirio, Jack Nicholsan and Matt Dillon.
I saw to see this movie at Pathe De Munt. I liked the movie a lot. As always the direction was fantastic. The acting  superb! Riveting! Edge on the seat  cat and mouse game between law keepers and law breakers.
The story reminded me a bit of an India movie  Ram Balram. In that movie a man adopts two children and trains one as police and the other as robber  so that he can easily continue to thrive in crime. Strangely this movie is inspired and made from a Chinese movie. I was a bit unhappy by hearing his  because I was not able to imagine that Martin Soccerer has to depend on an already made movie.
But after saying that Martin Soccerer has done a wonderful job; he has created an edge of the seat thriller, with numerous twist and turn. The trade mark stamp of Martin Soccerer were left on each and every frame  body, gory and violence.
The best actor was Jack Nicholsan, followed by Leonardo who is emerging as the best actors in the world. I like his selections of movie and movie directors. It seems that the pairing of Martin and Lenardo is working well.
The end twist of the movie was the surprise of Jack Nicholsan being of FBI and pitching criminals in the state police forces. That was interesting. In this movie too I did not like the ending  because Leonardo is killed  but no regrets  because it is Martin's style of film making.
After seeing the movie I felt  this is the way to tell stories  which we know is fictional  they are like reading books  that are like dream and fantasies. I would surely like to tell stories like this.
A not to miss movie!