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The Departed
Cast
Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg View AllCrew
Martin Scorsese (Director), William Monahan (Screenplay), Alan Mak (Screenplay), Felix Chong (Screenplay) View All
Release: Oct. 5th, 2006
Runtime: 2 hours, 31 minutes
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The only thread I could find on this wasScorsese's Infernal Affairs. Seeing as it's now been titled The Departed I think there can be a new thread on it. Anyway, i'm glad Scorsese's directing it so ...
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I figure those who don't check my reviews, can talk about the film here.
Here is my review again.
ADMIN EDIT: SPOILERS BELOW
Billy Costigan is an undercover cop who gets thrown into the hands of...
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someone is still left to kill Damon's character and give the film a "happy" ending, which I absolutely hate when it comes to this film because it seems like an easy way out for Damon's character, who is clearly so miserable by the end of the film that letting him live with his mistakes would seem to be the harsher punishment, but no.

With The Departed Scorsese is back to his old form and gives us the best film of 2006.

The Boston setting in contrast to Scorsese's usual New York City stomping grounds (NYC has served as the backdrop for ten of his feature films from Mean Streets through Gangs of New York) is a nice change.