Good..but not his best by a long shot

Rating: Null/10 (13 July 2011)

Had no idea this film existed if I'm honest, as soon as I turned it on however, a whole host of stars came on screen, Alec Baldwin, Leo Dicaprio, Jack Nicholson, Ray Winston, Matt Damon and more who I simply can't put a name to a face of.
There was a pretty shaky start to the whole thing, changing from characters point of view at one time to anothernot sure if this was the intention or because I missed the first 4 or 5 minutes. I was getting the feeling that it was just going to be a star studded routine film about cops and the bad guys, only with a heapload of actors and violence to keep me entertained, I turned out to be wrong though
A fair few one liners lightened the mood in the dingy and slow moving areasthe rapid changes between characters to different conversations with no transition was rather mind boggling at times.
Midway through I was thinking the plot was a pretty predictable ordeal, only hoping for something out of the ordinarytrue to Damon and Dicaprio to happen and blow me away. Seeing that I was able to foresee everything that was going to happen at this point the film seemed to be nothing special.
Then the film began to have a kick, it got me more interested in what was happening, and surprisingly I wasn't able to predict every moment, the action started to share it's role with making me think about what was going on.
Seeing as The Departed is a 2 and a half hour film, there was only one point during the film I became tired of, this feeling rapidly went away and was able to continue watching what would happen with an eager excitement.
Drawing to an end I was not sure as to what could happen, I had an idea but this was way off, it was a twist and a good one at that. At first this twist seemed to almost completely ruin the film for me until about 5 minutes or so later it all fit into place and I was able to say I thoroughly enjoyed what Scorsese had done with the end of the film.