Yes, well... departed is right.

Rating: Null/10 (16 September 2011)

This Scorscese good cop-bad cop opus is a pretty terrible film. Yes I know it won Oscars as sort of consolation for Scorscese not winning Oscars previously, but, erggh, THE DEPARTED was not the film to be handed them.... THE AVIATOR is the film that should have won the Scorscese Oscars not this horrible film. Jack Nicholson's truly terrible idiotic clichÃ©d performance is possibly the worst since THE SHINING with silly grimaces and Huntz Hall mugging. The shabby restaurant scene when he impersonates a rat is simply woeful, an insults the ticket-paying audience who have trusted the film makers and actors to deliver something a lot better.
If you want to see imagery of your most admired young male actors having their brains splattered on a wall, this sadly is it. As usual over violent, and that as usual marrs most Scorsese films: idiots with guns, swearing and urban decay. Not much has changed from MEAN STREETS. The DEPARTED is a major disappointment. Not as groanworthy as GANGS OF NEW YORK which is simply THE CAT IN THE HAT meets MOULIN ROUGE with a cleaver. Think about it.