Scorsese's Worst?

Rating: 1/10 (21 April 2007)

Yeah, Scorsese should have an Oscar or two on his fireplace mantle, but surely not for this. The testosterone-fueled screenplay is boringly predictable, the hollow dialog is just a bunch of rants strung together, and the plot is treated so superficially as to be an insult to our intelligence. The sub-plots are the inventions of a fool with no imagination. In total, the story is unadulterated drivel, not even worthy of B-movie status.
Without the fantastic cast assembled for this film, and without Scorsese's masterful hand to erect a visually exciting film experience, The Departed would have ended up going straight to video. Maybe it should have anyway. In terms of film history, it's a dirty shame Scorsese got his statuette for this shallow piece of nonsense.