8.6
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Drama, Thriller, Crime • 2006 • 151 min • Adults (18+)
The Departed (2006)
The Departed (2006)
Overview
To take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done likewise. While an undercover cop curries favor with the mob kingpin, a career criminal rises through the police ranks. But both sides soon discover there's a mole among them.
Starring Cast
Leonardo DiCaprio • Matt Damon • Jack Nicholson
Where to watch
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Center
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Race Swap: Yes
Christianity: Negative
Viewer Rating
8.6
Overview
To take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done likewise. While an undercover cop curries favor with the mob kingpin, a career criminal rises through the police ranks. But both sides soon discover there's a mole among them.
Starring Cast
Leonardo DiCaprio • Matt Damon • Jack Nicholson
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Center
Primary
Political: Center
Confidence: High
The film is a character-driven crime thriller exploring themes of loyalty, betrayal, and identity within a corrupt system, without explicitly promoting or critiquing any specific political ideology. Its focus on individual moral decay and a nihilistic resolution keeps it politically neutral.
Diversity: Low
Confidence: High
The film features a predominantly white, male cast, consistent with its setting within the Irish mob and state police in Boston, without any intentional race or gender swaps of traditional roles. Its narrative focuses on crime and moral ambiguity, rather than engaging with or critiquing traditional identities or explicit DEI themes.
Secondary
Race Swap: Yes
Confidence: High
The Departed is an adaptation of the Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs. Several key characters, originally East Asian in the source material, are portrayed by white actors in this adaptation, constituting multiple race swaps.
Christianity: Negative
Confidence: High
The film portrays many of its Irish-American characters, including the violent mob boss and his associates, as nominally Catholic. It frequently juxtaposes Catholic rituals and symbols with extreme violence, corruption, and hypocrisy, highlighting a disconnect between faith and moral conduct without offering significant counterbalancing positive portrayals.
LGBTQ: N/A
Confidence: Medium
The Departed does not feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes. While there are ambiguous, fleeting references or derogatory remarks, these do not constitute a meaningful portrayal of queer identity within the film's narrative for evaluation.
Trans: N/A
Confidence: High
The film "The Departed" does not feature any identifiable transsexual characters or themes. The narrative focuses on crime, police corruption, and undercover operations, with no elements related to transgender identity or experiences.
Female Combat: N/R
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Gender Swap: No
Confidence: High
The Departed is an adaptation of the Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs. All major characters in The Departed maintain the same gender as their counterparts in the original source material. No character established as one gender was portrayed as a different gender.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
8.5
8.2
Critic Ratings
9.1
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