Top of the Otts #3: The Departed

3. The Departed

It’s much easier to write something about movies you don’t like. I’m not inspired by The Departed or  moved by it. It’s not intellectually stimulating or politically important. It’s just entertaining, thoroughly, irrepressibly entertaining. Is there a compelling reason why Vera Farmiga isn't a bigger star? She owns this movie, despite having few scenes and the least entertaining portions of the script to work with. Meanwhile half of Hollywood is in the rest of this movie, and they're having a good time. It's kind of like Scorcese split Ocean's 11 in two, put them on opposite sides of cops & robbers, and gave them all Boston accents.