The Departed

The Departed is the latest Martin Scorsese offering and is a remake of the Chinese film Infernal Affairs which was released recently.

I loved the original so much that I saw it twice in the cinema and once on dvd and so was pretty sceptical about it being remade, even if Scorsese was the director taking on the project.

In the remade version Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio play the stooge cops and Jack Nicholson is the Don. The gangs are Irish American mafia gangs based in South Boston but the basic storyline of infiltration and subterfuge was kept and expanded upon.

Despite knowing the original story so well I found myself at the edge of my seat while watching this movie. DiCaprio did a magnificant job in convincing you of the vulnerability and sadness of his character and Damon was perfectly sleazy and dirty to the point where I shuddered when he was on screen. As for Nicholson he's sublime in this role it was made for him and he plays it to perfection.