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The Departed - hollywood version of Infernal Affairs
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   Thursday, 12 October 2006
Written by Ban Wei  - See all my reviews
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Guess I am one of the first batch who watched The Departed - Hollywood version of Infernal Affairs. Plus I am watching in the very new VivoCity's GVmax, the largest cinema in Singapore!!

Well, the cinema is as large as those old cinema I visited when i was still a kid. The screen is at least twice bigger or much bigger than the normal one you watched in other cinema. I couldn't count how many seats are there, but the side row already have 8 seats!

The story is almost 80% same as the HK's infernal affairs, even most of the scenes or dialogues are exactly the same!! For example: the cement hand of Leonardo (LiangChaoWei) is broken by Jack Nicholson (ZhenZhiWei), or Martin Sheen (WangQiuSheng) is being thrown from a high rise building and died, etc...

Although I knew the story is the same as Infernal Affairs, but after I watched this movie, I still feel that it worths the $8.5 to get into the cinema and watch this movie.

This because of all the crews they have, their acting skills are so astonishing that you can't believe! especially Leonardo DiCaprio (i start to like him now). And also the director is Martin Scorsese, the one who made The God Father I, II & III. Rather than that, you may also see how is the western cultures differ from us...

 

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 Not to forget
Sunday, 04 March 2007 - Written by ms_brown
as well as Best Director. Today Sunday Times featured that the scripwriter or producer of HK IA, did not like the ending of Departed at all.
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 Oscar winner
Saturday, 03 March 2007 - Written by banwei
This movie has won the Best Movie in Oscar 2007
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 not much can be expected from mafia film
Sunday, 15 October 2006 - Written by Mrs Hima
except gunfire and bloodshed...
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