[REVIEW] The Departed

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Maybe this movie is the best and successful Hollywood movie adaptation. This movie won an Oscar as Best Picture and also got so many nominations in the many movie awards. The Departed is an adaptation from Hong Kong movie, Internal Affair, starring Andy Lau

Synopsis: South Boston cop Billy Costigan (Leonardo DiCaprio) goes undercover to infiltrate the organization of gangland chief Frank Costello (Jack Nicholson). As Billy gains the mobster's trust, a career criminal named Colin Sullivan (Matt Damon) infiltrates the police department and reports on its activities to his syndicate bosses. When both organizations learn they have a mole in their midst, Billy and Colin must figure out each other's identities to save their own lives.

From the premise, the story of this film tends to be slightly difficult. However, for its implementation, this film doesn’t give audience a headache. At the beginning of the film, we are presented with two people who practice in the police, but with a different fate. When the film reaches the conflict, we will feel the intense situation by `chase scene 'between police and mafia. Many scenes are very capable of bringing the audience follow tense. Especially when the transaction scenes that organized by mafias. At the end of the story, there will be a surprising twist.

This movie had a lot of actors who have very skillful acting. Matt Damon succeeds to portray criminals who act innocent and role in police department. Leonardo DiCaprio gave an excellence performance. He can portray the police with poor anger management at the same time very fragile. Jack Nicholson is able to portray the head of the mafia who intimidate.

In my opinion, a very high rating, nominations and awards are well deserved for this movie

My rating 

86%