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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.
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November 6, 2006 at 1:45 pm
those “FXCK” word made it pass the censorship? that’s something new.
Oh but of course I didn’t catch it at the cinemas!
November 6, 2006 at 2:51 pm
It shows that Hollywood need not necessarily be as good as their Hong Kong counterparts in some areas.
November 6, 2006 at 3:05 pm
Kelly Chen quite cute
November 6, 2006 at 4:24 pm
kelly chen is very cute lar…quite only mer, hot?..
the departed lacks the “oomph” and “depth” in their characters…but the shows doing pretty well in US actually…
November 6, 2006 at 6:05 pm
Actually hor, the cinema didn’t censore all the beautiful holy language. They did censore some other things though.
November 7, 2006 at 1:08 pm
i’ve always preferred HK movies to Hollywood ones anyway.
November 7, 2006 at 4:09 pm
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I suspect that Mark Wahberg existed for one purpose…. to ensure that the “bad guy” (i.e. Matt Damon) does not get away scot free. I didn’t watch the third instalment of the original HK infernal affairs, but going from the ending of the first and original Infernal Affairs, Andy Lau “got away”, and the Hollywood people cannot allow this to happen. (Actually, the PRC also dont allow this to happen. I read that the version of Infernal Affiars screened in China has a very different ending from the HK version… one that is similar to the Hollywood version).
However, what the PRC and the Hollywood people didn’t get, is that Andy Lau did not infact, get away scot free! For the rest of his life he would be tormented by the dualities of his identity, the constant fear of his exposure, his own guilt as well as the pain brought about by his failed marriage!
The pain is alluded to in the Chinese Title of the movie “Wu jian dao”, (literally “the non-stop path”) which in Buddhism refers to the lowest pit of hell, a realm where its beings suffer without rest for innumerable kalpas.
Compared to that, Matt Damon got the easy way out…. ending it all with a bullet to the head!
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