What if it hadn't been Scorsese?

Rating: 2/10 (10 September 2008)

I watched this movie last night and before all I have to say, that I haven't seen Infernal Affairs, but I will as soon as possible.
Martin Scorsese is a great director. The directing in The Departed is great. Not his best but very good. The departed will never get close to Raging Bull or Goodfellas in my opinion.
When I watched the movie last night, I was very curious and excited. Before I watch movies I look at their ratings here at IMDb and mostly the ratings reflect my opinion. But this time the ratings got me all wrong. This movie is totally overrated.
The story starts very nice. You get excited, you get curious. You wanna know what happens next and it all your expectations just don't get realized.
Jack Nicholson is a great boss, but is he a big boss or a smaller one who still collects protection money? In the beginning they talk about microchips and you never know what happened to them. It doesn't make sense at all! Why do they want to get Castello when he only does small business? What about the ending? I thought Vanilla Sky or Secret Window had the worst endings ever but The Departed is not far away from them.
Maybe that is why I didn't like the movie. You don't get what you expect. And maybe if there was a better ending, you could remain blind to little inlogical contents of the script.
But it's not a good ending and I was really disappointed. The story is great. But the outwork is crap.
If you want to see good acting and perfect directing watch this film. But if you are into good story, nice messages and thrilling ends or twists... don't waste your time.