EdgeOfForever wroteThen again, you think Infernal Affairs is 10 times better than The Departed :rolleyes:
Can people have rational discussion on these movies though? Whenever I see it online it comes down to "Asian Film Snobs" vs "Scorsese/Leo fanboys".
I preferred Infernal Affairs, but Scorsese's film isn't bad. My big problem with it is the length: but I no longer have patience for the long movies generally, so that just might be my problem. Some other issues I had were his awkward merging of the two female leads into one, which left me with some serious questions over some of the characters' motivations, and also the uncontrollable Nicholson and his silly over the top performance. Oh and Wahlberg is only good at telling dick jokes.
But how Scorsese's movie was shot? Nope, no complaints there. A very different, (maybe better?) counterpoint to the glamorous skyscrapers of Hong Kong: a lot of ugly, worn down parts of "Boston" and NYC. That and DiCaprio, yes DiCaprio's performance, make it decent film, though not, imo, one of Scorsese's best.
Tony Leung was brilliant in the original movie, and few American actors could play that character (imagine Wahlberg, haha!), so it was a good casting call on the lead.