Will The Departed (2006) be any good?

I was excited about seeing the first Scorsese film with Jack Nicholson;
but then I had been excited about seeing Gangs of New York and it
clunked. Then The Aviator suggested that Scorsese is still a great
technical craftsman, but can he still make a great film?

Departed is based on the Asian film Infernal Affairs, which I thought
was pretty good but not worth the hoopla.

Richard Fangnail wrote:

>I was excited about seeing the first Scorsese film with Jack Nicholson;
>but then I had been excited about seeing Gangs of New York and it
>clunked. Then The Aviator suggested that Scorsese is still a great
>technical craftsman, but can he still make a great film?

I do understand why people aren't as enamoured with Scorcese
these days, but I remain a fan of his vision, for lack of a better
term, and I found much to appreciate in both Gangs and Aviator.
Much to deride, but a lot to like as well.

>Departed is based on the Asian film Infernal Affairs, which I thought
>was pretty good but not worth the hoopla.

I agree, it was fairly bog standard Hong Kong cop-triad stuff,
but I daresay Scorsese could be able to do something better with
the psychomalogical stuff. He also tends to like creating a
milieau for his flicks, these perfectly crafted worlds with ridiculous
amounts of detail, and I'm not sure how he can go about that
here without diverging significantly from the original.

Sandro - still, I'm curious to see what he will come up with.