Last night I watched Martin Scorsese’s Academy Award winning movie The Departed. The movie was definitely deserving of the Best Picture award.

The Departed is an action packed drama about South Boston’s Irish Mafia and the Massachusetts State Police units trying to take down the mob boss.

The movie packs a star studded cast, all of whom did an amazing job. Leonardo DiCaprio gave one of his best performances in years, portraying an undercover cop sent in to penetrate the mafia. Matt Damon was excellent as usual, even though I’m not sure I really like him playing the villain. Martin Sheen didn’t get much screen time, but he did great. And Jack Nicholson was the biggest surprise of all. I’ve never been much of a Nicholson fan, but he was excellent in the role of mob boss Frank Costello.

If you haven’t seen The Departed yet I highly recommend it. I actually didn’t even know that it had won any Academy Awards (let alone four) before I saw the movie, but it was deserving of all of them. Check it out!

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