THE DEPARTED

Every thing about this movei is so amazing. The Directing, acting, story, and the fact that you can’t peel your eyes from the screen for one second. I know i couldn’t.

I have always thought that the “cop and robber” genre was typically the same. There was a protagonist, and and antogonist. The cop was the good guy, and the robber was the bad guy. But in this movie it takes that basic story and flips it. The good guy is Billy Costigan, a cop from the wrong side of the tracks that goes undercover into the top gang in Boston to infiltrate Frank Costello.The bad guy is Colin Sullivan is a detective who is a mole for Costello. Sullivan and Costigan are trying to find out who each other are and the whole thing plays out into an instant classic long the lines of The Godfather. The way that Martin Scorsese directs it makes things that are emotional and makes them upbeat and surprising. You can never see things coming. This movie changes things in the gangster way of film making and turns them into a new “bang bang” way of film making. I love it.
By: AJ Bell