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Karp";p="810665 wrote:I thought The Departed was a good movie actually.

Karp";p="810834 wrote:Mark Wahlberg did a bang up job.

Nam Tsao";p="830310 wrote:The Departed was fantastic. Far from mediocre, better than Goodfellas even.

Peeping Tom";p="837424 wrote:im a huge fan of his and just loved it.
And how about some reasons why it sucked.

Some guy on Amazon.co.uk wrote:The Departed is yet another poor American remake of a recent hit film. Expectations were high but the film ultimately delivers nothing but the same old same old. Scorsese and the cast spend the overlong running time riffing on past glories and spouting lines written by a poor man's David Mamet. Not one of the A-list actors gives anything more than a passable impression of one of their previous roles (Baldwin and Nicholson being the worst offenders) and Scorsese himself seems to be going through the motions throwing in visual tricks for the sake of it and sleepwalking his way through a subpar soundtrack selection, usually one of his strong points.

The Departed throws away the spirituality and more personal elements of Infernal Affairs, its source material, and instead shoehorns in a meaningless CGI bullet-fest ending, a convoluted love triangle and an endless stream of verbal abuse designed to keep the audience in stitches which goes a long way to diffusing any tension the clumsy script can muster up. Infernal Affairs covers in the first five minutes what The Departed takes the better part of forty minutes doing. If it added anything to the characters I'd be able to forgive it, but it doesn't. The Departed is all style and no substance, and even the style isn't half as appealing as that of Infernal Affairs with its beautiful city backdrop and brilliantly suspenseful score music.

The Departed has two settings: ham and cheese. And not even the biggest fan has been able to defend the clumsiest last shot in cinematic history. Scorsese's off the boil, the cast are hideously predictable and uninteresting and the writing is lazy, cliched nonsense, even managing to fudge up some great action sequences that were there for the taking in the original script to Infernal Affairs. If you want gags, swearing, a bloated and muddled plot and The Joker throwing cocaine at prostitutes then The Departed is for you. If you'd rather watch something with efficient scriptwriting, understated performances and some emotional resonance then Infernal Affairs may be more your cup of tea.

The name Scorsese on the poster means nothing if the end product is a mess. Unfortunately, the Academy don't think so.

Some guy on Amazon.co.uk wrote:If you want gags, swearing, a bloated and muddled plot and The Joker throwing cocaine at prostitutes then The Departed is for you.