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Infernal Affairs.

Reddit r/TrueFilm·u/BaggyBoy·about 1 month ago
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Infernal Affairs. I don’t understand the hype. To be clear, I went into the movie knowing it was the original version of The Departed. I so wanted to enjoy this movie. But it just felt super low budget and not in a good way. So many flaws with this movie. The younger actors look like entirely different people and nothing like their older counterparts. The “Boss” character is super underdeveloped, one dimensional, and cliched. The dialogue is basically nothing but exposition. But by far the worst problem is the the editing. It’s all over the place. Cheesy flash back scenes, replaying the same scene again, and about 20,000 cross dissolves per minute. The “lift” scene was edited so strangely. Its feels like a straight-to-dvd low budget Hong Kong action film. It’s a movie that treats the audiences like they are dumb. Constantly flashing back to a scene that happened 10 minutes ago as if we had forgotten. Or playing over the top music when are ‘supposed’ to feel sad.…

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