Infernal Affairs: The Original Scorsese Remade

Mon, 08 Sep 2025 11:00:00 +0000

There is a good chance you have seen Infernal Affairs without knowing it, because Martin Scorsese won his only Best Picture Oscar for the remake. The Departed is a fine, foul-mouthed, blood-soaked Boston opera, and it owes its entire skeleton — two moles, one planted by the police inside the mob, one planted by the mob inside the police, each racing to unmask the other before he is unmasked himself — to a taut 101-minute Hong Kong thriller from 2002 that most Western audiences never bothered to find. Directed by Andrew Lau and Alan Mak, Infernal Affairs is the leaner, sadder, more elegant film, and revisiting it after the remake is a lesson in how much can be gained by cutting rather than adding.

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Infernal Affairs: The Original Scorsese Remade