A good movie, but unimpressed.

Rating: 6/10 (1 July 2012)

The Departed is a movie that first-timers to the plot will enjoy most thoroughly. The idea of two sides both having a mole each is most thrilling and I am sure viewers will be most impressed, especially with the line-up of stars in the cast.
However, I give this movie a 6 out of 10 as it is a direct copy of a Chinese movie, "Infernal Affairs" (2002). I am not talking about the general plot idea of the film, but rather the entire film sans the very last moment of the film is a direct copy down to Frank breaking the mole's cast to check for wires. Even the elevator scene at the end is almost a complete copy from the movie.
I would have rated the movie a lot higher if it didn't copy so much from "Infernal Affairs". The cast-breaking; the bad guy not revealing that he has found out on his deathbed that the gangster is a mole; the elevator scene; the head cop falling from the roof. All of this happens exactly in "Infernal Affairs" (2002).
In fact, "Infernal Affairs" was a lot more interesting in terms of how the moles went about communicating with their respective boss' and in this way was a lot more thrilling. "The Departed" (2006) just feels like a copycat, watered-down version of "Infernal Affairs".