Hokey ending

Rating: Null/10 (22 December 2006)

Martin Scorcese is a cult film-maker like Woody Allen. Notwithstanding this, he has made good movies ("Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore", "Cape Fear") same as Allen has ("The Sleeper"). But both in the long run have generally ended up making neurotic movies of compulsive characters. The ending of "The Departed" was hokey. Seeing it made me long for Alec Baldwin's character to shoot up Mark Wahlberg's. And then for Martin Scorcese (in cameo) to do in Alec Baldwin's. And finally for the audience to stone Scorcese's screen image to a pulp! Alas! Martin missed doing an all-time classic ending! The movie did well at the box office and at video rentals due to the cult following but also (more importantly?) due to the talented cast.