Miscasting?
Already dubious about seeing Leonardo DiCaprio in the upcoming Martin Scorsese movie The Departed, I have more reason to doubt. DiCaprio stars opposite Matt Damon in the movie, playing an undercover cop who has infilitrated the Boston mob and is beginning to become unglued. Damon, on the other hand, plays a mobster who has infilitrated the police. I really think Scorsese has the roles backwards. I much more see Damon, who is the more accomplished actor, as the cop in too deep and trying to maintain a grip, while DiCaprio, who comes across as a punk, seems better cast in the less demanding role of a hood. Of course, going against the obvious could be a master stroke. It worked wonders in Showtime's drama Street Time, in which Rob Morrow was cast as the hood rather than the cop and Scott Cohen was cast as the conflicted and dark cop rather than the hood. Time will tell.