The Departed is wildly entertaining, but I’m not sure I bought a minute of it.
It’s been praised as a return to form for director Martin Scorsese but return to form of what? Scorsese’s great gangster movies from the ’70s and early ’90s were tightly controlled personal narratives grounded in psychological and social realism; The Departed is a sprawling, baroque melodrama. It has more in common with Face/Off than GoodFellas.
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