Good Cop Very Bad Cop! Only So-So Scorsese,

Rating: 8/10 (13 November 2006)

'The Departed' borrows it's premise and set up from hong Kong's cop trilogy, 'Infernal Affair's
Scorsese's usual trademarks are present throughout including his trademark camera work, it's also the fifth time he's ditched his trademark aspect ratio of 1.85.1 for the epic 2:35.1 ratio,
Scorsese has a fine cast assembled but sadly The appearance of Mark Wahlberg, feels as if his performance belong's to an entirely different film, Jack Nicholson, Makes his first collaboration with Scorsese,
Current Scorsese golden boy Leornado Di Caprio, is intense, as is Ray Winstone, Complete with Convincing accent, Alec Baldwin, and Martin Sheen, also appear, Matt Damon, is great as always,
It's all too apparent that Scorsese, made some final additions to this, Long time Scorsese editor Thelma Schoonmaker, should have finely tuned the edit a little more delicately.