Just another gangster movie

Rating: 7/10 (15 October 2006)

Dicaprio did a good job in acting; Nicholson, despite all the good reviews, remained his natural psych tradition by duplicate it in every scene by every possible means, and therefore nothing new was seen. I guess that's the deal he got more parts and got to "improvise", in exchange for him being in the cast. Anyway, not impressive at all.
Since this is a remake of the HK movie Infernal Affairs (according to the New Yorker Oct 27), I watched the original work just to get an idea. A brief comparison: all the tastes meant to touch and move the audience in the HK movie were removed and replaced with the authentic American money/slur/old days/gang elements. Therefore The Departed is a decent piece in its own way, although the whole plot and even some scenes are directly copied.
To summarize it, my personal rating for The Departed is 7/10.