[RonF]

The Departed was a good 3/4 of a movie, but I thought the ending was too contrived - it seemed mostly a vehicle to blow a bunch of people away on-screen and was a complete deviation from what was a pretty good plot up to then.

[Zeroisanumber]

The Departed was a good 3/4 of a movie, but I thought the ending was too contrived - it seemed mostly a vehicle to blow a bunch of people away on-screen and was a complete deviation from what was a pretty good plot up to then.

The only thing that I thought was contrived was the second dirty cop, that seemed like something he tacked on to help propel the ending along. Besides that, it was Scorsese's best film since Goodfellas.