Everyone has watched Infernal Affairs anyway so here goes nothing.
Why the hell does Mark Wahlberg have to exist in that show?
Mark Wahlberg. Mark Wahlberg does nothing in the show. He exists PURELY to demonstrate the versatility of the word 'Fuck' as a noun, verb, adjective and adverb in every scene that he appears in. Oh and to kill off a character at the end of the show.
Matt Damon, you're not halfway COCKY enough to pull off an Andy Lau. You don't look cocky. You suck. You're a lousy Andy Lau.
Leonardo Dicaprio is passable. OK it's a biased remark because I love Dicaprio. But he did an okay job, when you try hard not to compare him to Tony Leung, you could say he gave the Billy character a life of his own.
Oh Jack Nicholson has really bad hair in the movie. REALLY BAD HAIR. You'd think a hot shot mobster who earns millions enough to not give a damn about pussy will be able to afford a better hair stylist or at least, Brylcreem Super.
The earlier part of the movie makes me feel as if Scorsese watched too many Quentin Tarantino movies and tried really hard to inject Tarantino-ism into the film. Midway through, things moved back to the original infernal affairs style, cos maybe, Scorsese remembered he had a story to tell.
Heck even the colour scheme looks suspiciously like a Tarantino scheme.
I've got other complaints as well.
Why is it a prerequisite for a mobster movie to have a lot of swearing?
Many of the scenes were lifted directly from the original Hong Kong movie. And everytime a repeated scene appeared, I laughed because it looked stupid and pathetic.
If you wanna get ABCs to speak Cantonese on an American movie, get one who can speak decent Cantonese-lah. I was laughing throughout that exchange scene. OMG SO LOUSY YOUR CANTO, CAN? Cannot talk don't talk lah. Don't act all crever and shake around with that pose when you talk can? (Who on earth was that guy anyway?)
Two guys after one woman doesn't give the show character. It doesn't give the actress character. In the HK version, I sympathized with both Sammi Cheng and Kelly Chen. Pure innocents stuck with ticking time bombs. Unsuspecting victims of perverse persuasion. Combining TWO characters into the same woman, and making both the main characters vying for her attention make her look like a slut who two-times her husband, and the bad boy she's counselling.
Halfway through the movie Eric stared at me and mouthed the words, 'So boring.'
Now if you'll excuse me, I think I'm going to watch the Original show again just to refresh my mind.
