not really scorsese's best work

Rating: 8/10 (30 October 2006)

The Departed is a great movie that suffers towards the end from an excessive number of plot twists. Everything else is in it's right place and yet, and yet, and yet... it still does not have the feeling of greatness that casino or taxi driver had. Why? i'm not sure. I have the feeling though that this will eventually grow into a descent drinking movie thanks in most part to Jack Nicholson's one-off mafia boss. Plenty of laughs to be had there. The movie for me had the unfortunate luck of following a preview for 300 which i couldn't get out of my head for most of the movie.
8 out of 10