I saw a commercial for The Departed for the first time tonight, and while few things get me more excited than a new Martin Scorsese movie, I’m a little skeptical of this one. Watching the trailer only confirmed my fears.
For starters, the casting is highly suspect. Scorsese continues his ill-advised obsession with Leonardo DiCaprio. In this one, he’s an undercover cop infiltrating a Boston gang. I don’t expect much for DiCaprio has yet to prove he can convincingly play an adult. Taken individually, I very much like the key members of the cast: Jack Nicholson, Matt Damon, Mark Wahlberg, Alec Baldwin. But put them all together, and you have more faux-toughness and scenery-chewing than Sawyer’s flashbacks on Lost. And judging from the trailer, the Boston accents, with the exception of Wahlberg’s, are universally awful. Nicholson’s is especially bad.
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