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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Joshua Randall" data-source="post: 3118046" data-attributes="member: 7737">Yeah yeah, The Departed isn't fantasy or sci-fi, but it's still a damn good movie. It's not, however, a flawless masterpiece that should automatically win a boatload of Oscars.Spoilers... I'm serious, MAJOR spoilers. Like, if you read what's below, you'll know how the movie ends, and that will take all the tension out of it.[sblock]At one point, Leo DiCaprio's character (Billy Costigan) visits Martin Sheen's character (Capt. Queenan) at the latter's house. Queenan invites Billy in and asks him to have something to eat. Then... nothing.I really wanted to see a scene between the two of them to play up the surrogate good-father/son dynamic, in opposition to Jack Nicholson's character's (Frank Costello) bad-father/son dynamic with Billy. I wonder if a scene was filmed, but cut?Not everyone needed to die via headshot at the end like some gangsta version of a Shakespeare play. In particular, the random other corrupt cop who shot Billy in the elevator, thereby saving Matt Damon's character (forgot the name), seemed like deus ex machina to me. I mean, there was no hint of that particular cop being a Costello mole at all.Similarly, the fact that Mark Wahlberg (Lt. Dignam) could break into Damon's apartment totally unseen just to murder him in the last scene was also pretty convenient. Like the writer wanted to go for a morally ambiguous ending in which Damon "won" and remained unscathed, but then changed his mind and decided to kill him off instead.[/sblock]So, other comments?</blockquote>

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