Data
Title: The Departed
Year: 2006
Length: 151 minutes
Director: Martin Scorsese
Writer: William Monahan, based on a movie written by Alan Mak & Felix Chong
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen, Ray Winstone, Vera Farmiga
Music: Howard Shore (mostly non-original music)
Distinctions: Oscars for Best Picture, Best Directing, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Editing; Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor (Wahlberg); currently #50 on the IMDb's Top 250
My reaction
Synopsis: the police and a gang both have moles from each other, and both know it
How I saw it: on video (rented from Netflix), yesterday
Concept: Great.
Story: Great.
Characters: Great.
Dialog: Great. Wonderfully entertaining.
Pacing: Great. If it had moved at Scorsese's typical pace, it might have been five hours long.
Cinematography: Great.
Special effects/design: Great.
Acting: Great.
Music: Good.
Subjective Rating: 8/10 (Great). Exciting, funny (for a crime thriller), and with a surprisingly cool bad guy from Jack Nicholson. If I didn't know, I never would have guessed from watching it that this was a Scorsese film. Not that I don't like Scorsese (I love some of his movies, dislike others), just that this is totally unlike him.
Objective Rating: 3.9/4 (Great).
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