A Quality Review Of The Departed

Released in two thousand six, the departed is one of the conventional mafia police war movies, but this one has a twist. The story is based on the rivalry between the Irish American mafias and the police and this time there are actually two agents who are busy in double crossing their organizations. One does it for the bad guys and the other for the good ones.

This story is a summary of betrayals and thrills all coming together under the umbrella of the traditional rivalry between the mafias and law enforcing agencies. Similar movie genre always seem to depict a cop integrating within the criminals to identify and capture their heads and bosses. In this case the twist is that the mafia prepares their lad to land in the midst of the law enforcers to spy for them.

Billy is basically depicted as the central good cop character whose family connections with the mafia land him in the job of spying on the cartels and the bad guys. He is quick enough to capitalize on his prevalent connections within the mafia and gains unsurpassed respect as a mob leader. This helps him greatly in getting the gist of all the criminal planning being done and helps him tip off the fellow cops in order to stop the execution of those plans.

On the other hand Collin is the one who is the mafia guy within the police ranks and is doing the same work that Billy does; but for the criminals. He is as good as Billy and quickly becomes a looked forward to officer is the special investigation unit which helps him in tipping of the mafia of their any plans in sabotaging the crime activities. This character carries a heavy importance in making this flick a hot pick on the box office because most of the conventional mafia and police movies do not show such variance in double agent roles.

As the movie moves forward, both the mafia and the police identify the fact that they both have intruders within their ranks that are tipping off the opposite parties. At this point both Collin and Billy, have to prove their worth and originality to their organizations in order to stay clean. There is a definitive struggle to unveil the crook and in this process the movie lingers on with some suspense oozing action packed sequences. This is the time when the human sense of betrayal is seen dominant as both these agents are on a brink to unveil and turn in their fellow mates and colleagues they have been working with.

The last half of the film is the one in which all the puzzle pieces begin to fall in place. The departed cannot be rated as an ultimate action thriller but you can say that it is action drama at its very best. The last scenes mainly focus on the arriving collision and betrayal unveiling between Collin and Billy and hence it is action and suspense filled.

The final scenes of the movie show Billy trailing Collin in order to arrest and reveal his true identity to the police department. The intimacies of all these times make Billy ask Collin to take the immunity offered by the police department in case he was apprehended. The final round comes when Billy and Collin end up in a scuffle with Collin killing Billy.

The story is a myriad of ups and downs with some very obvious twists and some great thriller sequences. The bottom line of The Departed remains that no matter how powerful crime grows, it can never topple the truth, honesty, and goodness of society.

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