Meh, entertaining but nowhere near Marty's best work.

Rating: 7/10 (18 October 2012)

The Departed is a film with massive hype and expectation laid upon it, but unfortunately, it doesn't deliver.
Nicholson: Plays himself. its not believable that he's a widely feared crime boss, there's too much larking around.
Damon: He's too rigid. A man who has been brought up around the mob, would be violently bubbling with insanity under the surface, not a cross between Spock and Jason Bourne.
DiCaprio: Terrific throughout.
But his performance is distracted from, by the terrible casting of the characters around him. I'd have liked to see Michael C Hall play Sullivan.
PS, how can some people compare this to Goodfellas...Different league!!!