The Departed

Rating: 9/10 (15 December 2006)

Martin Scorsese is out on the streets again, and once again, we get to see, that this is a place that he knows. "The Departed", screenplay written by William Monahan, is Scorsese's best film since 1995's "Casino". It's primarily a great acted movie. Jack Nicholson plays his usual crazy guy ("She fell funny!"), Matt Damon is great as Nicholson's rat in the police and Mark Wahlberg's character Dignum is not exactly one of the pleasant kind. Special mention also for Vera Farmiga as the only woman, who has one of the most interesting parts in this male-dominated gangster film. But it's Leonardo DiCaprio who steals the show. His character is the best written in Monahan's script, we get to know things about his past and his motivation, so we can understand much better why he gets trapped inside this deadly game. He also is present in my favourite part of the movie, the scene where Martin Sheen dies. The tension that this scene is filled with and the surprising way it ends is extraordinary.