Comments on: The Departed

By: abvittaro

abvittaro — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 19:42:20 +0000

i thnk leo’s gun Heckler and Koch HK USP Elite Pistol maybe not sure

By: Rolf

Rolf — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 16:11:45 +0000

The gun Leo used in Blood Diamond is a 9mm Heckler and Koch USP compact.
I thought at first glance that it was a Glock19…but freezing the motion on the DVD
of that movie unmistakbly revealed it to be an HK USP compact 9mm.

By: Pistola

Pistola — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 00:42:42 +0000

Leo’s gun is a Walther PPK .38, I think its cool, its really sleek.

By: David

David — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 01:23:54 +0000

why am I hearing negative reviews because of the ending? what did I miss?
Was wahlberg’s character a cop or on the mobs payroll? Please enlighten me.

By: artzi

artzi — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 18:01:07 +0000

Does any one know what is the pistol model which Leonardo Di Caprio used in the film The departed?

By: tito

tito — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 17:11:53 +0000

snippet from The Balboa (in SF) theater’s newsletter:

THIS WEEK AT THE BALBOA
Two years ago, after nearly a year of begging, pleading and pushing Miramax, they agreed to let us premiere the knockout Hong Kong thriller, INFERNAL AFFAIRS. It was a great hit for us. No U.S. distributor owned its two sequels and I started writing the sales agents, Media Asia in Hong Kong. Noresponses. In Cannes last year I found their salesman. He told me they couldn’t let us play INFERNAL AFFAIRS II and III because of an American remake being made by Martin Scorsese.

Now the remake has opened to great critical success and it going to be the biggest box office hit in Scorsese’s career. Many of you have requested that we show THE DEPARTED so that we have been able to program it starting this week. We are working on INFERNAL AFFAIRS I for special showings next week.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 05:45:58 +0000

Excellent review (although I’m with Karen on The Wire…I recently caught the rest of Season 4 vis a vis certain underhanded methods, and it is absolutely devastating.)

By: Karen

Karen — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 22:49:12 +0000

The Departed was entertaining, but not among Scorcese’s best. I did like the setting and that great aggressive Irish shouting/music. As for DiCaprio … when I first saw Gilbert Grape and the Basketball Diaries, I thought di Caprio was the best young actor to come along in an age … and then, picture by picture, he self-destructed right before our very eyes. He’s better in this one than he’s been for a while, but is it because he finally looks like a grown-up, playing a grown-up? He has physical heft now, so the anguished brow (which is his look through 90% of this movie) is a nice contrast. Nicholson just escaped being a caricature … just. Damon was good. Wahlberg was good. The girl was negligible.

The Wire has it all over these recent crime movies. Christ, I feel silly saying so (bc no matter what HBO claimes, it IS TV), but there it is.

By: LetuSRetroGrade

LetuSRetroGrade — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 21:56:34 +0000

I’m absolutely baffled that DiCaprio’s been getting all the attention when, to my sensibilities, Damon’s performance was a good ten times better. So subtle and nuanced, you could spend hours analyzing that character. Don’t get me wrong, this was certainly Leo’s best performance since, what, Basketball Diaries? But in my opinion Damon stole the show. Totally.

By: Jay

Jay — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 20:05:04 +0000

ummm…in Blood Diamond Leo plays a South African, not Australian, and his Boer accent is pretty good to my ear.

By: Megan

Megan — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 19:44:32 +0000

I was finally glad to see a film with Nicholson where he wasn’t the main focus. I’ve hated his last few films where he’s become a caricature of his own movie persona. All in all though, I thought the Departed excellent, even with the borderline Bostonaccents (the girlfriend’s accent sucked).

There was a woman freaking out at the end during the elevator scene behind me. That’s what I kept hearing about the film—that it was quite violent. Sure that ending has some very in your face violence (no pun intended), but I didn’t see it any more violent than other films or television for that matter.

By: mai wen

mai wen — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 19:25:35 +0000

I agree with most of what you said, but a couple of comments. First, I can’t believe you didn’t think Leo wasn’t acting in The Aviator, I thought he was excellent in that movie! Gangs of New York I’ll give you, but I thought Leo was excellent in The Aviator.

I thoroughly enjoyed the film but also noticed the plot holes that you mentioned and personally was very disappointed in the ending. I’m not bothered by What happened in the ending buy How. It all seemed a bit convenient and not well plotted out. Puh-lease, the whole elevator scene made me roll my eyes bit time. And totally agreed, the chic’s role in this film was so weak that she annoyed the crap out of me. And I think she was very underdeveloped and just stuck in there so this film wasn’t completely a man’s man film with violence, etc. Gotta throw in the love story to satisfy the ladies, right? Wrong, it was horrible and I’d rather have done without her in it.