Overrated - Disappointment

Rating: 7/10 (8 November 2006)

Summary: Well directed, excellent actors, OK plot..
I saw this movie a couple of days after I watched "The Usual Suspects" on DVD.. Compared The Departed is miles behind in both total quality and plot! Great humor, some nice violence.. Not the best photography I've seen and definitely not the most clever movie out there. But overall this is one of the best movies of this genre in 2006. Scorsese have done better before, but this is way better than Gangs of New York and some of his other later movies, and Hollywood in general..
Overall worth the money, but I miss an even more clever plot, nothing actually happened that I couldn't predict! Normally I don't mind sitting in the cinema for 2.5 hours: I actually don't now why, but "The Departed" felt a bit too long, Scorsese didn't engage me as much as I'd hoped..