Gone, pretty much forgotten

Rating: 5/10 (6 November 2007)

Having seen The Departed I'm The Disappointed. It's not in any way a bad film but it is a bad Scorsese film. The premise of the movie is fantastic but neither the plot or the characters ever really develop throughout. It's just too similar to Infernal Affairs, pretty much a remake, and it should have been so much more. The best part of the film for me was the brilliantly shot pursuit from the cinema, sadly it's virtually a lift which is what the film suffers from. There is too little jumping off from the original and too much retreading.
The cast by and large do a good job. Mark Wahlberg's excellent and Leonardo De Caprio is extraordinary, I've never been knocked out by either in the past but they're great in this. Ray Winstone gives the same performance I've seen for the last five or six years but with a slight brogue and there are a couple of horribly hammy Nicholson moments that should have been jumped on.
One thing I did like about The Departed is the look of it. It's really beautifully shot and the locations were perfect.
If this had been directed by someone else it would have been decent enough but against Scorsese's best films it just doesn't cut it.