a poor rip off

Rating: 1/10 (20 May 2007)

I have to say that when i went to watch the American Version of Departed i was rather in two minds, firstly since this film is a remake of a very successful Hong Kong film starring the very talented Andy Lau, and Tony Leung Infernal Affairs.
OK Departed has had huge publicity since it stars many top rated well known actors, so already this is used to deter the public from the original success of the Hong Kong version, if you were to not know that Departed is not original, then you would see this as a fantastic film, but having compared to HK Version, this lacks all you can think , it is taken word from word, act from act, and the worse thing about the US Version is the ending. If you see the HK version you shall see why.
A very poor rip off, covered by well known actors!!and that is all!!!