The Departed, best movie of the year, so far

I’ve watched “The Departed” with a certain delay. Usually, when you’re going to watch a movie from which you’re expecting much, you’re kind of unsatisfied at the end, no matter how good it has been in fact. So I went to watch “The Departed” without thinking of it being considered the best latest Scorsese’s movie, from “Goodfellas” on. And I haven’t really been disappointed.

The movie’s beginning is difficult, even boring. As the action and every character’s profile are coming into view, “The Departed” starts to be attractive. Scorsese is using for this movie a Tarantino and Guy Ritchie’s sort of humor, which is quite an unusual thing for him. “The Departed” would be, probably, his most “humoristic” movie for a certain period of time. Maybe this humor was used to compensate for the tragic and unfair situations of the plot. The final scene, featuring the slaughter from the elevator, reminds me of the same sort of Tarantino’s putting into acting of “Reservoir Dogs”; only that in Scorsese’s vision everything is quickly flowing, in a very relevant and simple way.

Leonardo Di Caprio and Jack Nicholson are acting in a quite magnificent way. In my opinion, Di Caprio is the most talented fellow of this new generation of actors; and I think that after this role he is not going to be thought anymore as the cute, likeable teenager from “Titanic”. Matt Damon didn’t impress me very much; he performed well, as usually.

“The Departed” might be truly considered an Oscar movie. Till now, “The Departed” is the year’s best movie produced at Hollywood.

[tags]Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jack Nicholson, The Departed, Oscar [/tags]

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