Word: dicaprio
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...Leonardo DiCaprio, Blood Diamond Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson Peter O'Toole, Venus Will Smith, The Pursuit of Happyness Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland...
...good because of its violence. Indeed, the best action scene in “Casino Royale” is a beginning chase scene with practically no blood; “The Departed” works because of terrific acting by Jack Nicholson, Matt Damon, and (especially) Leonardo DiCaprio...
...blood in “The Departed” actually weakens the better scenes in which tension is created through the threat of violence, not its execution. Nicholson’s best scene is a conversation with the duplicitous DiCaprio where the audience thinks that Jack might put a bullet through Leo’s pretty head no less than three times. When Scorsese indulges in splatters of blood similar to those that drowned “Gangs of New York,” I wished that the characters would stop shooting and start talking again...
...political message--that buying a diamond ring may unwittingly finance terrorism--is buried under two plot questions: Will Danny find Solomon's diamond? And will he locate a furtive decency under all that artful scheming? Neither holds much suspense, since 1) this is an action movie and 2) DiCaprio takes lots of risks as an actor, but playing a total rotter isn't one of them...
...Constant Gardener and Catch a Fire, Hollywood has paraded its love for stories about Africa--as long as they're mostly about white people. The poignant suffering of the blacks is a backdrop to the play of Danny's mixed motives. And, honestly, that's enough, since DiCaprio, here as in The Departed, proves himself the most watchful and watchable actor of his age. Since his teens, he has known how to make moral dilemmas seem both profound and sexy, and at 32 he just keeps getting better...