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Departed, The (2006) Rank 2 Reviews

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Movie critics combined give Departed, The (2006) a score of 3.4859 out of 4

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Village Voice (J. Hoberman)

Neither a debacle nor a bore, The Departed works but only up to a point, and never emotionally--even if the director does contrive to supply his version of a happy ending. ...read the complete Departed movie review at Village Voice (J. Hoberman)

Killer Movie Reviews (Andrea Chase)

With THE DEPARTED, Martin Scorsese has taken a good film, the Hong Kong minor classic INFERNAL AFFAIRS, and remade it into a movie that is a bloated as it is bland. Gone is the dramatic tension of a slick action flick, gone is the suspenseful ...read the complete Departed movie review at Killer Movie Reviews (Andrea Chase)

Hollywood Report Card (Ross Anthony)

Scorcese mightily succeeds at keeping his audience at the edge of the seat. The suspense in this film is as taut as piano wire around the neck of a snitch. There are good guys acting like bad guys and bad guys acting like good guys and then there are the ...read the complete Departed movie review at Hollywood Report Card (Ross Anthony)

Richmond Times-Dispatch (Daniel Neman)

Mere violence just doesn't do it anymore. No longer can a director hope to regain his audience's flagging interest by inserting scenes of people being hurt or killed. Especially when the scenes are so relentlessly the same. ...read the complete Departed movie review at Richmond Times-Dispatch (Daniel Neman)

kids-in-mind

Jack Nicholson stars as an Irish mob boss in Boston, who grooms a boy into a star police detective (Matt Damon) by providing him with inside information on criminal activity. At the same time a young undercover cop (Leonardo DiCaprio) is assigned to ...read the complete Departed movie review at kids-in-mind

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