Totally weak

Rating: 2/10 (10 October 2006)

Mild spoilers here only. Read anyway and save yourself a wasted admission price.
Well, what can I say about this movie? How about... "it sucked", because it did. My girlfriend and I went to this movie with high hopes having immensely enjoyed the likes of Scarface, Goodfellas, Heat, etc., and having read the fantastic reviews of The Departed posted not only by critics (e.g., Rotten Tomatoes 95%!) but also by users here. What a let down. There was a star-studded cast, and there were some moments of good acting, but on the whole, the plot line and pace were boring. Beyond the interesting idea of having a mob informant and police informant working at counter-purposes, nothing much of interest was done with this. The movie drags along until about the 2.5 hour point, when suddenly the producers must have said "hmmm... time to end this... what shall we do? I know... lets just shoot everybody in the head and be done with it!" And don't even start me on the totally unrealistic and totally contrived love triangle, which, by the way, was completely incidental and unnecessary to the plot. This show was lame. I'm sorry.