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10-15-06, 11:00 PM
Caution, this review is a spoiler, do not read if you want to see this movie!!
I've always liked Scorsese's movies. Casino, Goodfellas and Taxi Driver are some of my favorite movies ever. He's got a great directing style, his movies are (were) always tastefully done, with violence, but not the senseless violence that Tarantino is known for. But, his newest film "The Departed" pushes the limits for gore and violence beyond Tarantino's lines.
Let me get started by saying there was a ton of violence in this movie. There is usually a good amount of blood and gore in Scorsese's movies, but nothing too bad. In this movie, when someone gets shot in the head, you see the entire thing, not just parts of it like in Casino or Goodfellas. In the ending, all of the likeable charachters get their heads blown off, except for the biggest douchebag in the movie..he's the only one that end's up alive. It's like in the ending of "Reservior Dogs", where everyone ends up dead.. Disappointing. The worst scene is when Martin Sheen's character gets pushed off the 6th floor of an abondoned building by the gangsters. You see him with the gangsters, then it cuts to a scene of him falling thru the air, then it cuts to a ground level shot where you hear him hit the ground, and a bunch of his blood splatters about 6' up in the air, then it cuts to a shot of Mr. Sheen, police captain, lying dead on the ground in a pool of his own blood, with blood coming out of his eyes, nose, ears and mouth....that's too much! There's plenty of this through out the movie... :/
The plot was confusing as hell too. The movie is about the Irish mob in Boston and the Massachussets State Police. Now the MPD is trying to get the leader of the mob (Frank Costello), played by Nicholson, who is great as always. And the MPD has their two guys, Billy Costigan, played by DiCaprio, and Colin Sullivan, played by Damon. Now they were both in the police training, but Dicaprio's character went into the undercover unit....he went into the Irish mob. Now the character played by Damon is the leader of the unit that's going after the Irish mob, but he's in the mob too, but Costigan and Sullivan don't know each other, and they don't know that they're both double agents. Either way, that gets very confusing in the end because their stories mingle and merge together so much.
Also, theres some pretty cool chase scenes with Nicholson's car in the movie, a Ruby Red '94 Roadmaster, but it gets destroyed in the end, but it takes a lot of damage in the final scene. There are a lot of cars we'd like in here, Town Cars, the Roadmaster, a couple Cadillacs, etc etc.
Anyways, I wouldn't recommend it. I would have much rather spent my money on Robin Williams' new movie "The Man of The Year". You can't go wrong with a movie starring Williams, Lewis Black and Christopher Walken!
I've always liked Scorsese's movies. Casino, Goodfellas and Taxi Driver are some of my favorite movies ever. He's got a great directing style, his movies are (were) always tastefully done, with violence, but not the senseless violence that Tarantino is known for. But, his newest film "The Departed" pushes the limits for gore and violence beyond Tarantino's lines.
Let me get started by saying there was a ton of violence in this movie. There is usually a good amount of blood and gore in Scorsese's movies, but nothing too bad. In this movie, when someone gets shot in the head, you see the entire thing, not just parts of it like in Casino or Goodfellas. In the ending, all of the likeable charachters get their heads blown off, except for the biggest douchebag in the movie..he's the only one that end's up alive. It's like in the ending of "Reservior Dogs", where everyone ends up dead.. Disappointing. The worst scene is when Martin Sheen's character gets pushed off the 6th floor of an abondoned building by the gangsters. You see him with the gangsters, then it cuts to a scene of him falling thru the air, then it cuts to a ground level shot where you hear him hit the ground, and a bunch of his blood splatters about 6' up in the air, then it cuts to a shot of Mr. Sheen, police captain, lying dead on the ground in a pool of his own blood, with blood coming out of his eyes, nose, ears and mouth....that's too much! There's plenty of this through out the movie... :/
The plot was confusing as hell too. The movie is about the Irish mob in Boston and the Massachussets State Police. Now the MPD is trying to get the leader of the mob (Frank Costello), played by Nicholson, who is great as always. And the MPD has their two guys, Billy Costigan, played by DiCaprio, and Colin Sullivan, played by Damon. Now they were both in the police training, but Dicaprio's character went into the undercover unit....he went into the Irish mob. Now the character played by Damon is the leader of the unit that's going after the Irish mob, but he's in the mob too, but Costigan and Sullivan don't know each other, and they don't know that they're both double agents. Either way, that gets very confusing in the end because their stories mingle and merge together so much.
Also, theres some pretty cool chase scenes with Nicholson's car in the movie, a Ruby Red '94 Roadmaster, but it gets destroyed in the end, but it takes a lot of damage in the final scene. There are a lot of cars we'd like in here, Town Cars, the Roadmaster, a couple Cadillacs, etc etc.
Anyways, I wouldn't recommend it. I would have much rather spent my money on Robin Williams' new movie "The Man of The Year". You can't go wrong with a movie starring Williams, Lewis Black and Christopher Walken!