It was not that great~~

Rating: 5/10 (26 March 2007)

Having watched the original Hong Kong version - Infernal Affairs - I personally thought The Departed was lacking in many areas. Leonardo Di Caprio portrayal of the undercover cop character was not as good as Tony Leung. I am a big fan Tony Leung's acting. He has a very good screen presence and has a smoothness and charisma to his acting. In many ways the characters and scenes where better portrayed in Infernal Affairs when compared to The Departed. For instance, when Martin Sheen died (in IA, this was Anthony Wong), Di Caprio's reaction was more 'what the hell' than that of sadness. Also a lot of the 'copied' scenes, was overdone in The Departed. Martin Scorsee always tries to overdo things and he does it again. Trying to re-think and re-do a perfectly fine scene to try make it his own.
A see people, commenting whether or not there will be a sequel. Well in Hong Kong there were 2 sequels. Well kind off. The second was like a prequel that mainly goes back to the beginning to tracks Andy Lau (Matt Damon) and Tony Leung's (Leonardo Di Caprio) rise and how the came to be the person they were in Infernal Affairs 1. The third actually continues from the first film and concludes the trilogy. But it will be hard to re-use this idea in The Departed, cos a prequel was kinda included in the start of The Departed. Also i did not know why Scorsee wanted to create the love triangle when it was not necessary. I mean in IA, they had separate love interests. Tony and Kelly Chen was a good pairing and it allowed Tony's character to put down his guard and be himself when he went to see her (oh, she was his shrink)...
..Anyways I would certainly recommend Infernal Affairs to anyone. If you liked The Departed, you might want to check out Infernal Affairs. I not sure whether or not ppl will like it. I really loved Infernal Affairs. and that was maybe why I found the Departed to be a bit of a bore...maybe you'd feel the same if you watched The Departed before Infernal Affairs....