If you value your cinematic experience watch the original...

Rating: 1/10 (20 October 2006)

I feel compelled to write my first ever review...
Before we all get all excited about this movie "The Departed" which it has just been my misfortune to view, I would like to suggest to you, the viewer, if you value your cinematic experience, to watch the original film this "movie" is made from: Infernal Affairs http:// www.imdb.com/title/tt0338564/
The original film is excellent and possibly the best "cop" film ever made in my opinion. A Hong Kong made film which is truly gripping with the characterisation just pulling you into the story-line. The outcome of the original film also leaves you with questions and a real sense of being someplace else, a sense of journey. A sense which, unfortunately, this hash re-make does not. Scorsese has failed me on this one!
Why re-make a film that is perfect. One word to describe this movie: rubbish. See the original and you won't get disappointed.
Check-out more world cinema and these hash re-makes in "English" won't get made.
For example: À Bout de Soufflé (1960) (aka Breathless) remade as Breathless (1983); Abre Los Ojos (1997) remade as Vanilla Sky (2001); L'Appartement (1996) remade as Wicker Park (2004); Boudu Sauvé des Eaux (1932) remade as Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986); Les Compères (1983) remade as Fathers' Day (1997); La Cage aux Folles (1978) remade as The Birdcage (1996); Les Diaboliques (1955) remade as Diabolique (1996); Et Dieu... créa la femme (1956) remade as And God Created Woman (1988); La Jetée (1962) remade as Twelve Monkeys (1995); Nikita (1990) (aka La Femme Nikita) remade as Black Cat (1991); Nikita (1990) (aka La Femme Nikita) remade as Point of No Return (1993); Profumo di Donna (1974) remade as Scent of a Woman (1992); Taxi (1998) remade as Taxi (2004); Trois Hommes et un Couffin (1985) (aka Three Men and a Cradle) remade as Three Men and a Baby (1987); Yojimbo (1961) remade as Last Man Standing (1996); Rashomon (1950) remade as The Outrage (1964); Jules et Jim (1961) remade as Willie and Phil (1980); Shichinin no Samurai (1954) remade as The Magnificent Seven (1960) and Mou gaan dou (2002) remade as The Departed (2006)
The list goes on and on but I have just selected the originals which I personally have seen, which are all far superior to the re-makes. They say the greatest form of flattery is imitation, but just for once let's leave the original alone can we... --- post script: OK time has passed, i have watched this film again, alongside the original... OK it has some merit and is quite good (for a remake). tip my hat humbly xxx