Except in real life he only did 5 years got released and was caught selling drugs again that sent him to prison until 1991.
You're right. The real characters say it doesn't "truly" depict the real deal, however it's still a good movie. I think they were saying that the movie made it look as though they were more glamorous or had more "good" in them, someone to look up to but in reality they were monsters that tore up the city with crack infested activity and just brought everything down with the drugs and killing.
When you put Russell Crowe and Denzel Washington together than 9 times out of 10 your gonna get a very good film. And this was a top film. I really enjoyed it.
I've seen it as soon as it came out and I must say I don't regret any minute. The movie just freakin' rocks! The best part is, the movie's based on a true story so it makes it even better, like Goodfellas. (let's not talk about Goodfellas, we all know no movie can compare to Goodfellas)
LOL, nothing is close to goodfellas have to agree with this. Out of everything though, i rate Departed up my all time list. Pretty high. Thought that was great. But goodfellas is just Utopia lol.