Hollywoods screws up another really good foreign film

Rating: 3/10 (26 March 2007)

The original, Infernal affairs is so much better. Scorsese took a great movie and turned it into a cuss match and 2.5 hr long sex joke. If I hadn't seen Infernal Affairs, I'm sure I would have thought the movie was great given some of the character developments. But, since Scorsese started from Infernal Affairs, I have to measure his work from there, and it is pathetic. The scene where Leo and Gwen meet towards the end where he's sitting down outside and she holds him to her stomach is horribly shot. At the side angle it looks like his head is at her crotch level, at the behind Leo's head angle it looks like his head is at her breast level.
The two bright spots of the movie for me were Matt Damon playing a prick (as it just came natural to boo his character) and Mark Wahlberg showing he can take on an asshole role and not some guy in touch with his feminine side as all his other characters seem to be that I've seen.
If you're a someone who will never watch a subtitled movie and loves being spoon fed Hollywood crap as well as dick and fart jokes, I mean killing and sex jokes, this movie is great for you, seriously. But, if you like watching a fresh film rather than its not as great rehash and care more about the story and movie and less about the actors names, and don't mind subtitles, snag a copy of Infernal Affairs.