Hollywood Rubbish

Rating: 1/10 (20 October 2006)

I went to see this hoping Scorsese would do Infernal Affairs (the original) enough justice for me to class the film as 'mediocure'. But I was horribly wrong. Scorsese instead filled the film with as much cheese as possible. The original was not a gangster film, that The Departed turned out to be. Instead it was an emotional film about the lives that undercover officers must go through. If we'd wanted to see a gangster film, there's plenty out there (all of which are better than The Departed anyway). I was amazed that so many good actors (such as Jack Nicholson and Martin Sheen) signed up for this.
Anyone who has seen Infernal Affairs would probably feel the same way as I do. If you have seen the original, it would be a complete waste of money and time to watch this. If you haven't seen any of the originals, I would strongly recommend that you at least see one of them. All in all, this is probably the most heavily Hollywoodised remake ever.