After being bombarded by the trailer to Shutter Island for months now I was elated at the chance of watching it and putting the whole thing behind me. Not because I expected it to be bad… hell it has Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio and Sir Ben Kingsley, I just wanted the trailers to finally go away. Shutter Island ended up being nothing like the trailers...

The Departed is a movie about… Gangsters… Cops and most of all RATS!!! Big fat hairy (insert Jack Nicholson doing a rat impression here… yes he actually does one) RATS! Without giving anything away I must say that Scorsese did this movie for the boys. The shining stars of Jack Nicholson, Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Wahlberg, Matt Damon, Alec Baldwin and Martin...