Is departed a good movie?
With its clever plot, excellent acting and expert direction, The Departed is without doubt the year’s best film so far. If this really is going to be his last gangster film (he has said so), as well as his last studio-endorsed picture, Scorsese can be proud, given the masterpiece he has given us.
Is The Departed overrated?
The answer is that The Departed is the most overrated movie of the year so far and Nicholson gives the most overrated performance. Nicholson is not playing Frank Costello, he is playing Jack Nicholson, and his performance is so over-the-top that it’s funny.
Which is better Infernal Affairs or The Departed?
As far as story resolution, Infernal Affairs is superior by spades. Anyways, I’d like to open a general discussion comparing the two. the top comment you got does a great job summing it up: The Departed really villified the undercover character while Infernal Affiars drew similarities between the two main characters.
What is so great about The Departed?
Because it’s a plot-driven film with plenty of twists, The Departed is also the most suspenseful of all Scorsese movies. This is helped by the fact that the movie isn’t narrated by a protagonist with a peppy vernacular, and it never once tries to calm viewers’ nerves.
Is The Departed scary?
MPAA explanation: for strong brutal violence, pervasive language, some strong sexual content and drug material.
Is departed a comedy?
Though “The Departed” has flourishes of black comedy throughout, it’s not “Prizzi’s Honor”; it’s a truly dark movie in which many people die horribly, and ending on a goofy visual pun makes fools of the audience for caring.
Is The Departed a ripoff?
But The Departed is a remake of 2002’s Infernal Affairs, a slick Hong Kong thriller co-directed by Andrew Lau and Alan Mak, and the Cantonese original is just as engrossing as Marty’s Beantown cover version – and arguably more so.
What does the rat mean at the end of The Departed?
In “The Departed,” Costigan was a rat to the mob because he was informing the police. Sullivan was a rat to the South Boston police, giving vital information to Costello, who was also a rat to the mob through his reports to the FBI. The literal rat is just a little joke — look ma, a rat in a story about rats!
Was Sergeant Dignam a rat?
At the end of The Departed, Dignam kills Sullivan after finding out that he was the rat all along and responsible for Billy Costigan’s death.
Did Costello work with Dignam?
If the question is asking whether Dignam was himself a Costello rat, the answer is that we know he wasn’t.