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Film · 2002 · Crime
Infernal Affairs
Directed by Andrew Lau and Alan Mak
2002
Hong Kong
★ 6.5 editorial score
Scorsese's The Departed is a remake of this, and the Hong Kong original is fifty minutes tighter: two moles assigned to find each other, and a plot that never stops to explain itself.
“In the fiercely modern, anglobalised Hong Kong, on Asia's cusp with young America and old Britain, where the cops intersperse Cantonese with phrases like yessir and sorry and a police funeral comes with the skirling of a piper, this blistering thriller packs an almighty punch...When going to the movies can seem like a pretty earnest business, it's good to have one that gets you hugging yourself with excitement.”
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