Questions

Rating: 8/10 (20 December 2007)

Isn't it a somewhat depressing thought that Martin Scorsese, one of the brightest and most original minds to grace the movies should receive his first and as yet only Academy Award for the Americanization of a magnificent Hongkong thriller - the magnificent that remake, namely "The Departed", in itself might be? Isn't it even more depressing that "The Departed" is indeed the best Scorsese picture in years - notably since 1991, when he brought "Cape Fear" to the screen, again a remake, this time of that remarkable 1962 J. Lee-Thompson thriller of the same title? Should the helmer of "Mean Streets" (1973), "Taxi Driver" (1976, "Raging Bull (1980) or "GoodFellas" (1990) have lost his touch or is he terribly in need of a Paul Schrader?