Great movie, great adaptation but hardly original

Rating: 4/10 (11 February 2007)

All in all, this was a very well-executed movie and well-adapted from the original 2002 HK movie "Infernal Affairs" but it's still not an original movie. With such a brilliant director working on an originally excellent HK movie to bring it to silver screens in America, it is hard to see how it would not be a movie that would capture audiences.
That said, it is much better done that other US adaptations/clones of Asian movies such as The Lake House (Korea's Il Mare in 2000), The Ring, The Grudge, Dark Water etc.
I still hope that there will be an adaptation of Infernal Affairs II and III done.