The Departed is easily 2006's most overrated film so far!

Rating: 1/10 (31 October 2006)

All of the undue "praise" coming upon Marty Scorsese's film of The Departed is completely irrelevant.
The film is simply a remake of the superior Infernal Affairs, a Chinese action film from 2002, that had better narrative, better characterization, better dialog, and far better tension.
It seems that every Scorsese fanboy and Leo fanatic across this nation has made The Departed a major hit, however the goods just don't deliver.
Once again Marty is back to his old gangster film-making, and this time it's the old and tired cops versus gangsters tired and clichéd formula.
It worked for GoodFellas, not so much for Casino, and it badly misfires here.
Titanic teen heartthrob, Leo DiCaprio, trying unsuccessfully again to look like a mature actor, plays an undercover cop sent by the Massachusetts Police to infiltrate the Irish Mafia headed by Jack "over the top" Nicholson.
Jack once again plays Jack, this time with a darker side.
Matt Damon plays the mafioso sent to infiltrate the Massachusetts Police Department.
The whole film is about both Leo and Damon trying to find each other's identity before it's too late.
None of the characters are remotely interesting, and I could really care less about who got killed or not, the film plays like another one of Scorsese's tired gangsta flicks.
Slightly better than Scorsese's two previous efforts, but, nowhere near as good as his last great film, GoodFellas, The Departed ranks a 3 on a scale of 1-10!
Looking for a better film, try the Hong Kong action flick, Infernal Affairs, which The Departed is based on, it's a MUCH better flick than Scorsese's latest film.