The hardest part, for me, about this film was watching it whilst trying not to compare it to the original, Infernal Affairs, which didn't exactly blow me away in the first place. I seem to have failed in this endeavour, as I find Scorsese's remake wanting. Unlike it's Asian predecessor, I thought The Departed plodded a little bit, and the violence is just gratuitous and far too inevitable to be menacing. Moreover the ending is a colossal cop-out.
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