The Departed carries similar themes to Scorsese’s other crime dramas and I enjoyed watching both main characters (DiCaprio and Damon) walk a razor-thin line between loyalty and duplicity. The cast is as good as it gets: DiCaprio privately unravels as he constantly legitimizes his trustworthiness; Mark Wahlberg proves he should be doing better scripts than The Happening with his flat-out consummate dick role; a boisterous Alec Baldwin seemingly carries even bigger brass balls than he usually does in these parts.

Best of all it finally put Scorsese and Nicholson together. I miss Jack. He hasn’t been seen in the celluloid since 2010, playing Paul Rudd’s dad in some forgettable comedy. Before that, he was in the Bucket List which, shockingly enough, was even more forgettable than the Paul Rudd vehicle. So The Departed seems to be it, the last great Jack performance. I really hope when the day comes, that inevitable bad day when we read the news on our Facebook feeds, they don’t show clips from those last two dog-piles on his tribute videos.

“I don’t want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me.”