A pale remake of an Asian classic

Rating: 1/10 (3 April 2007)

The Departed, the winner of the academy award for best motion picture, is just another remake based on a Chinese original. Critics called it one of the best movies of the year 2006, but in my opinion it is a disgrace to the Chinese original, called The Infernal Affairs. And it is also Scorsese's worst film ever. Even Gangs of New York were more original than this film. Let me explain why I didn't like this film.
First, the characters are empty. There is no emotion and the characters don't develop throughout the film. They are just like chess figures on a board.
If I go on, this is two and a half hour long remake of a trilogy of at least six hours in length, so many important things were left out, so the story is full of holes that really need to be patched.
As it is typical for Hollywood the body-count must always be bigger. Many characters just die for no reason at all. It seems like Scorsese thinks that if he delivers us a messy massacre the film will be a success. Just return to your basics Scorsese. Your older films are much better than your recent crap that you call a movie.
Another big mistake is that Nicholson's character is more developed than the characters of Damon and DiCaprio, maybe because Nicholson really did a good job and acted as a professional. But this is the only bright point of the film. And this is the reason for my two stars, because Nicholson is the only one who keeps this movie above one star. A disaster in every way and a very unfair decision of the Academy to claim this movie as the best motion picture, especially to the Infernal Affairs, which deserves an Oscar for the best motion picture more than this poor interpretation.