Remake

Rating: 6/10 (25 April 2007)

This was a great movie, I thought that it was an original screenplay and story that is until I found out that this is a remake of a Hong Kong movie called "Infernal Affairs" which was coincidentally the working title for "The Departed". The story is identical, it's about a story between a mole in the police department and an undercover cop. Their objectives are the same: to find out who is the mole, and who is the cop. It is for this reason that I gave the film " The Departed" a lower rating after initially giving it a high one. I am actually disappointed in Martin Scorcese, considering the track record he has with making great films, for ripping off the idea of another film. I guess he's run out of ideas. It used to be that foreign movies would copy Hollywood movies, it's now the other way around and actually one of the best director's of our time that is doing so.