Ching Chong Chinese American Gangster??

Rating: 2/10 (7 March 2007)

Excuse my poor English in this review yet I am addressing everyone to excuse the embarrassing and irrelevant Chinese dialog and characters in this film. Before I divulge as to why this disastrous verdict for The Departed - much of what was going through my mind was not only Asians. The annoying coincidence of romance with the same woman between the 2 protagonists (shallow plot), DiCaprio's identical acting to Blood Diamond (research boys?), same body language and facial expressions... (too easy), Jack Nicholson was someone you really aren't scared of... and Matt Damon was just a dumb a**...long drawn out scenes made the whole film slow and dry...weak acting from the Psychaitrist.
OK back to the Triads. I could not get over the fact that they used American Chinese guys to play the supposed local Chinese triads. Their Chinese dialog was atrocious and embarrassing.Like Westerners trying to talk Cantonese. Did they run out of people to hire?? Whoever wrote the Chinese dialog part of that scene should be sacked. Very unlocal Chinese pronounciation the Chinese right and the dialog was like formal Chinese. Can you believe there was NO swearing at all???!!!... Weak. So if they had such a bad Chinese accent, why speak Chinese at all? They are obviously brought up in the USA. Sigh, another sad moment in a US film. That killed the film completely. My advise is to go see Infernal Affairs and realize that the original film is smart, original, very intense and at least you did not want the film to end!