8.6
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
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
Where to watch
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
LGBTQ: Negative
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
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Primary
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.
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
The film features the uncritical use of homophobic slurs by several characters, including Dignam and Costello, as a means of insult and degradation. This language is presented without narrative counterbalance, contributing to a negative portrayal by normalizing harmful homophobic rhetoric within the film's environment.
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.
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.
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.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
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.
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8.5
8.2
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9.1
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