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Martin ScorsesePhotographie:
Michael BallhausMusique:
Howard ShoreActeurs·trices:
Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen, Ray Winstone, Vera Farmiga, Anthony Anderson, Alec Baldwin (plus)VOD (3)
Résumés(1)
A Boston, une lutte sans merci oppose la police à la pègre irlandaise. Pour mettre fin au règne du parrain Frank Costello, la police infiltre son gang avec "un bleu" issu des bas quartiers, Billy Costigan.Tandis que Billy s'efforce de gagner la confiance du malfrat vieillissant, Colin Sullivan entre dans la police au sein de l'Unité des Enquêtes Spéciales, chargée d'éliminer Costello. Mais Colin fonctionne en "sous-marin" et informe Costello des opérations qui se trament contre lui.
Risquant à tout moment d'être démasqués, Billy et Colin sont contraints de mener une double vie qui leur fait perdre leurs repères et leur identité. Traquenards et contre-offensives s'enchaînent jusqu'au jour où chaque camp réalise qu'il héberge une taupe. Une course contre la montre s'engage entre les deux hommes avec un seul objectif: découvrir l'identité de l'autre sous peine d'y laisser sa peau...
(texte officiel du distributeur)
Critiques (14)
I am not familiar with the Asian film Infernal Affairs, which forms a precursor to The Departed, and given my relationship with Asian productions, I am skeptical about the idea that it could interest me more. However, I don't have to address the lack of originality of the subject matter and how Scorsese dealt with it. Nonetheless, it is an interesting film that fully satisfies me on an emotional level. The duel of two professionals who infiltrate the enemy camp to gather information is full of tension and twists. A clever film with excellent casting, led by Leonardo DiCaprio. Overall impression: 90%.
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Il voulait éviter toute comparaison avec le film asiatique Infernal Affairs, dont Identity remake. Mais lorsque vous connaissez l'original, dans lequel l'histoire est filmée de manière plus dynamique, plus claire, aucun personnage n'est ostentatoire (comme Jack Nicholson) et son optique asiatique est encore plus exotique pour un Européen que la "Sale Amérique" réchauffée par le cinéma, Identity ne surprend vraiment pas. Bien sûr, Martin Scorsese et son directeur de la photographie de confiance sont des maîtres dans leur domaine, on ne s'ennuie pas une seconde, on est constamment en compagnie de l'élite mondiale des acteurs, dont le réalisateur délecte les personnages jusqu'à la moelle sur le plan psychologique. Mais dans l'ensemble, le film, son goût final, donne l'impression que les créateurs ne l'ont pas abordé avec autant d'amour que The Aviator. La seule personne qui s'est totalement investie dans le projet et y a mis son âme, c'est l'explosif Leonardo DiCaprio. Encore quelques rôles similaires et il sera dans mon top 5 personnel d'acteurs. Sinon, Identity est simplement un drame policier mafieux solide, où les spectateurs américains sont bouleversés uniquement par la fin, à laquelle ils ne sont pas habitués à Hollywood. Le film mérite 4 étoiles dans le contexte de la production américaine contemporaine, mais certainement pas dans le contexte de la filmographie du réalisateur. Je vais volontiers le regarder de nouveau, mais je ne peux pas cacher ma petite déception.
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It’s against nature, but Marty is getting younger. This is the kind of fucking entertaining film that even a young kid in the director’s chair wouldn’t be ashamed of. Those almost two and a half hours passed by like water. In the case of the ensemble cast, it's pointless to comment on DiCaprio and Nicholson, they're chapters unto themselves, so I'll just single out the much-maligned Damon (that perfect smarmy crooked character, I can't imagine it could have been played any better) and especially Wahlberg (!!!), whose brilliantly written lines were a joy to listen to, and his banter with Baldwin made me laugh out loud. After the screening, I remembered Steven Spielberg's words that he "doesn't have to prove anything to anyone anymore and just wants to have fun with movies", I feel the same way about The Departed. I probably wouldn't give Scorcese an Oscar for it, in the context of his previous, albeit more notable work (if does get it, it will be mainly "for merit"), but it's gratifying that underneath the skin of the grey professor emeritus, there's still that old familiar rebel from the days of Mean Streets and Taxi Driver :)
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Four stars for that beautifully dry ending, but as a whole it didn’t really thrill me. There are a lot of big names, but the best is DiCaprio, he’s really unlikeable, but his performance is great. His antagonist, Matt Damon, in contrast, is a jerk at times, not because he’s bad, but because I didn’t find him believable in the role. The story moves along quite slowly, there aren’t any proper turns until about the middle and before that, you have to put up with a lot of dialogues that are supposed to be vulgar, dirty and tough, but they are clearly fake and forced. For me, The Departed deserves 75%.
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At the blessed age of sixty-four, Martin Scorsese delivers a gangster flick so precise that his colleagues a generation younger can only be quietly envious. The 150-minute trip amongst the highest police and mafia brass is told with incredible ease, the utmost sense of the perversity of both worlds (conveyed through the fatal love of one woman), and an absolutely divine dose of chilling black humor. You won't find an unnecessary movie window in this work, let alone a scene. Scorsese once again stylizes violence as a normal routine aspect of life, which he breaks at the very end only to play lightly with the viewer and show that even he doesn't have to take himself deadly seriously. The cast of the greatest actors is interspersed here, from the riveting DiCaprio to the relaxed Damon (any talk of overacting is bullshit!), the diabolical Nicholson, and to the absolutely brilliant Mark Wahlberg. Everything is underlined by stylish musical accompaniment, starting with Pink Floyd and ending with the thrilling punk blast of Dropkick Murphys. After finishing the film, I had only one desire: to watch this concentration of perfection again!
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Until the very end, Scorsese's speedy directing and the great actors manage to disguise the fact that this tale about cops, rats and hidden agents may have too trivial of a plot, in which, unlike Infernal Affairs, there is no room for deeper psychology and surprises. Nevertheless, it is a thriller that can be watched breathlessly and enjoyed at an incredible pace of storytelling. The question is whether it can be watched more than once.
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I've avoided the film for so long that I have to give it a full score without thinking, because this is a great ride full of my favourite stars and what can we say, I've never seen better cast in a film. All is underlined by decent dialogue, great story-building and an excellent bloody climax. By the end, I was growling with a decent amount of pleasure and watching in disbelief as the screenwriter pulled us along. I regret my procrastination, I couldn't have spent 151 minutes better.
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When I decided to go see The Departed, contrary to my original intention, I was firmly convinced that I would not try to compare it to the original. And yet in a movie where the best moments are those that copy it exactly, I can't do otherwise. As for the star-studded cast, Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, and Martin Sheen are great, Alec Baldwin and Mark Wahlberg are average, and Vera Farmiga and, to my huge surprise, Jack Nicholson, are terrible. It is his role in The Departed in particular that proves why the remake should not have been made. Instead of a subtle gangster leader, Costello is a sleazy and unnecessarily vulgar arrogant, who doesn't care about anything or anyone, and the screenwriters added a stupidly behaving female character between the two main heroes, which further diminishes the credibility of their mutual duel. And above all, I won't forgive Martin Scorsese for one fundamental thing: the suspenseful, emotionally charged, and, in my eyes, forever unforgettable final scene in the elevator, which was the highlight of the original, became a farce in the remake, cramming three twists into a few seconds, and the absurdly portrayed final shootout of the main characters provoked deserved and almost incredulous mockery in the movie theater. Scorsese destroyed a film that could have redefined the gangster genre if he hadn't merely dissected the original and wildly twisted it – and that has earned him everything possible from me, except for the promised pinnacle of his career.
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And this is an Oscar-winning movie? Marty’s weakest work? Ha ha. I haven’t yet seen Infernal Affairs yet, so I should avoid comparing them. The beginning is boring as hell. Plus, I have nothing against cussing and vulgarity, but too much of a good thing... The screenplay must have been awful for a start and the actors must have agreed to do it just because of Scorsese. And what does the Fox say? “You can’t build on wobbly foundations"? But not to be too critical. DiCaprio is really good and the end is quite interesting for an American movie (but not really, when I remember that the story originates from Asia).
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This arrogant, self-absorbed mainstream ride is supposed to be the best film of this year that has won so many Oscars and other awards? I can't believe it. Martin Scorsese should wake up to the reality of today's world after those beautiful years and understand that “American” stories of tough guys are no longer in fashion and he should stop trying to replicate or hint at the unattainable pieces of his past work. The quality of The Departed, whether it is a good or a bad remake, can only be judged by someone who has seen both films, which I am not, so I take this film as a separate compact entity without any comparisons or regret about how it should have been. However, as a crime story, it is insufficient. There is an excessive amount of vulgarity, with a good half of it being unnecessary. The plot is far-fetched – tough guys, tough lines, shootings every day – just a normal day in the big city. I don't want to jump to conclusions, but this is really overdone and off-putting. For fans, it may be an entertaining film that shows Scorsese makes movies for fun and doesn't worry too much about it, but for the overwhelming majority of rational-minded laypeople, it's just a typical American hyped-up ride without a trace of real subtext. And the Oscar “for merits” is quite laughable considering the previous works of the famous film connoisseur.
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I was really looking forward to this. Power. But maybe too much. The Departed is certainly not a bad film, but from beginning to end I couldn’t get rid of the impression that it's primarily a film that drags on and is unnecessarily long. Yet the number of minutes (the great Casino is even longer, whilst the absolutely fantastic The Irishman is even longer than Casino) is not the problem, but rather what they are filled with. I don't know the original, but it's three quarters of an hour shorter, and I wouldn't be surprised if all that seemed boring or unnecessary here was the work of William Monahan and Martin Scorsese.
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I'm glad that Scorsese finally won his Oscar, and I'm even happier that it was because of this film. After a long time, a thoroughbred gangster movie, where the bad guys are tough and ruthless, the good guys are unreadable, and the script is so perfectly thought out and built up that my mouth formed a beautiful O when it was over. So many directorial ideas and impressive scenes for one film, it's almost a shame, but I'm certainly not complaining. I was surprised by Leonardo DiCaprio, who gave probably his best performance yet, he imbued his character with great charisma and didn’t lag behind the always excellent Nicholson. But I was even more impressed by Mark Wahlberg, who was given the biggest role of his career ahead of time, and he played it in an unforgettable way. Hands down the best film of the year, thanks to which Scorsese got it back to the academics with interest.
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Despite this being a remake, Martin Scorsese convincingly demonstrates that he is one of the greatest contemporary directors still making films. For me, this places him right alongside Stanley Kubrick, the director I admire the most. The Departed is a superbly directed film where you can see Scorsese easily adapting to modern filmmaking, playing with the camera, every scene, and the story itself. Jack Nicholson, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Mark Wahlberg deliver absolutely great performances, and especially the latter surprised me in that under good direction, he can truly act well. An amazing film where I thoroughly enjoyed the final showdown.
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Big Marty on top again. An absolutely superb gangster film in every respect, whose greatest asset is the excellent work with the actors and the perfect rising action. Mark Wahlberg might just have the least amount of space here, but the way he manages to use even that minimal space is fantastic. I almost pissed myself laughing during some of his lines. Martin Scorsese just keeps directing like crazy, his films have incredible balls, and any bullshit about the lack of character psychology or underdeveloped plot or buried point or messing up the original only speaks to a viewer's impotence, which manifests with wildly excessive masturbation over parroting pseudo-art films. I always expect the highest level of entertainment from Scorsese, and The Departed is a fabulous flick with no compromises, and moreover packed with superstar actors. It's even better the second time around and the third time around... Well, I won't go into that here :))))
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