Very poor quality

Rating: 2/10 (27 March 2007)

Sorry to disagree with those who liked the movie, but I have to say that I found it totally unmemorable. This work is definitely not of Oscar quality. I have seen many other Scorsese movies, and frankly, his later work (Gangs of New York, The Aviator) is just terrible. In the Departed the story line is not well presented, there are severe problems with continuity, many dialogs are poorly executed, and I could go on and on. In my opinion, these defects reflect a severe deterioration of Scorsese's craft. I hope he can recover his touch and go back to the excellent craft that he exhibited in his early days. This year there were several movies by far better than the Departed. One has to wonder why the academy gave an Oscar for a work of such a low quality.