The Departed is pretty good

Rating: 7/10 (8 January 2007)

The Departed is a copy of an Asian film, Infernal Affairs, and which was also supposedly based on another Scorsese film. Anyway, Infernal Affairs is a much better film that focuses on human relations with focus on the strains of human interaction and conflict, even between good friends and undercover police life. One of the friends is undercover, and the other the gangster, mafia member. In the movie they kind of remain friends.
The Departed is more about revenge, gun violence, betrayal. The two characters knew little of each other. There is hardly a comparison between the two movies. The Departed does not have a strong message. It's a movie to watch and to forget. 'The movie of the week.'