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The Departed

Cast

Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg View All

Crew

Martin Scorsese (Director), William Monahan (Screenplay), Alan Mak (Screenplay), Felix Chong (Screenplay) View All

Release: Oct. 5th, 2006

Runtime: 2 hours, 31 minutes

To take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done likewise. While an undercover cop curries favor with the mob kingpin, a career criminal rises through the police ranks. But both sides soon discover there's a mole among them.

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4 Ending of The Departed

Why did Mark Wahlberg kill Matt Damon at the end? At first, I just assumed it was because he didn't like Matt Damon, and he found out he was the rat, which made him hate him more. Now, I'm wondering...

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Iroquois
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.

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

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Holden Pike
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.

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