The Departed

Well in a film like that it's a bit hard not to look even harder, I always think I've missed something! But I think the rat was just a symbol of the whole film in general.... Or it might have been the rat looking over that Golden Dome was representing Colin's character, after all it was his dream to have that view.
 
Agreed. I watched and enjoyed this film for the first time last night. I don't think the Wahlberg character was a rat either, probably just acting on the information that was in that envelope Costigan gave the psychiatrist.
 
Infernal Affairs was brilliant. Departed not bad but not great. The female psychiatrist was badly cast and her falling for di caprio was implausible. Baldwin was crap and miscast, yet he is great in 30 Rock. The Oscar was a guilt (gilt?) thing.
 
I've wanted to see this since it was released and only got round to it this weekend... pretty good, strong leading cast but wasn't as great as I expected. Certainly not the return to form it was described as.
 
I think Infernal Affairs, the original is far better. It's on Film4 now.

I feel the characters have far more dimension and that Lau and Leung play it far better than DiCaprio and Damon.

Didn't really see the point of Walhberg's role, it was far more dramatic when only one of them knew about the undercover and all he seemed to do was swear and be rude to everyone except Sheen's character. Also a lot of the good scenes in the Departed were pretty much carbon copies from the original and when Scorsese won his oscar he never gave any credit to the original Hong Kong filmmakers.

Thought the ending of the Departed was ridiculous, everyone getting shot in the head, left, right and centre was a bit of a cop out. I thought Infernal Affairs ending was much better, probably because Hollywood frowns upon the baddie getting away.

Watched Departed yesterday and noticed DiCaprio pick up his mobile and shout into the speaker part, I've seen him do the exactly the same thing in Body of Lies.
 
"Didn't really see the point of Walhberg's role, it was far more dramatic when only one of them knew about the undercover"

I think Scorsese decided to tack on a bad guy gets his desserts ending(Hong Kong 1 Hollywood 0), so in that sense Wahlberg charcter was necessary to pop up at the end and kill him. You're right he didn't add anything otherwise.

In the original you could sense the hatred of main baddy and main cop was real. With Jack Nicholson overacting and hamming away (fun and watchable though it was), that was lost.

still at least it wasn't that pile of sh*t gangs of new york
 
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