Jack Nicholson channeled Whitey Bulger in The Departed, with Ray Winstone. WARNER BROS. Bulger was taken off the board in 2018 courtesy of a jailhouse bludgeoning at USP Hazelton in West Virginia.

It's possible, throughout "The Departed," to see a 63-year-old director trying hard to prove his swaggering-young-man bona fides, whether in scenes designed to shock (Costello re-breaking someone ...