not very special at all...

Rating: 7/10 (12 March 2007)

When I heard that this flick won 4 Oscars, I got my hands on it and watched it.
It was quite entertaining experience, however nothing more. The main plot is totally unconvincing - Costigan and Sullivan rise way too fast in ranks of organizations they infiltrate, Costello trusts Costigan too easily knowing he was a cop and much more...
The ending was just plain dumb. The character development... Wait... What character development? I was hoping for a masterpiece like Casino. What I got was an entertaining flick you might wanna watch with a bunch of beer loving colleagues.
Compared to Mann's "Heat" which also is about good and bad guys, "The Departed" is thin and weak.