Excellent film far better than

Rating: 9/10 (19 March 2016)

'The Departed' in every way in point of fact 'The Departed' was the hip post millenial version of 'Whitey Bulger.
Depp should have gotten an AA for his performance and I say that knowing full well his lack of recent skill - this is a great performance as were all the attendant pieces esp. Julianne Nicholson and Joel Edgerton as the Connolly couple.
There was nothing sentimental per Bulger - a foul human being from the get go -a loser and one committed to infecting all with his twisted psychopathic homicidal mind set.
No cutsie sarcasm or 'insert the racist, ethnic or fag joke here' as Scorcese is want to do - rather a gritty dusty wind blown accounting by former associates and flunkies that did Whitey's bidding.
A great film and Depp should be proud of his performance.
The Departed had the hip: crew, music, director, sarcastic ridden script all of it. As time wears on that very Scorcese trait will sink it below 'Black Mass'.