Very Middle-of-the-road

Rating: 3/10 (27 June 2007)

The Departed might be enjoyable as a television show or whatever , but I cannot consider calling this film high-end-cinema. predictable it is...even corny now and then (the 'flashy ' shoot-out at the warehouse at the end...f.i.) Even the casting of the 2 opposite main characters , diCaprio & Damon , not good chosen as enemy's.... sometimes hard to keep apart , but OK , their acting was sort of fine.... As well..., the film lasted far too long for the story told. Scorsese could have taken at least an hour of ...and still not losing any essentials. the story is quite weak IMO ,( as soon as I saw the envelope with ' citizen ' written on it , I knew this would play a key role in
the discovery '-I call that predictable)
Nicholsons character well OK , very soon you def.start to hate the guy... , but.... not one of his finest performances.
the Scorsese Film i saw before this one , the Dylan documentary ' touched me immensely more as did this film... But that one's in a different catalog i realize...
Films like ' the Departed ' are made a lot in celluloid country aren't they ?.., and that's nothing special ain't it ?
ps: and ..what's the point in having the 2 opposites 'sharing ' the same girlfriend ?
never got that...