Slacks for Ella Funt

I liked this a lot better than I thought I would. Jack Nicholson hams it up as usual, but the rest of the cast is great. Matt Damon is always a little more interesting as a bad guy—I find him a little cardboard as a hero. And Leonardo DiCaprio is finally starting to lookold enough to play an adult. The story line was neither overly simplistic nor complicated to the point of being impossible to follow. I’m interested to compare it to the Hong Kong movie it’s based on, Infernal Affairs. Time to add it to the Netlfix queue.
The funny thing about watching The Departed is that multiple scenes were shot in my neighborhood, even though the movie takes place in Boston. There’ve been a lot of film crews in Greenpoint the last few years since NYC started the big tax break for filming here. I think they’re using Greenpoint as the generic “working class” neighborhood. I had the same issue in Garden State, when the lead character works in an “LA restaurant” that was filmed in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, near my former apartment.