Fresh
Everything you'd want in a police action thriller: powerhouse performances, Grade A production values, a good script and suspenseful direction.
G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle
Infernal Affairs
Loyalty. Honor. Betrayal.
2002 · 1h 41m · R
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Directed by
Alan Mak Siu-fai
,
Andrew Lau Wai-keung
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Infernal Affairs
Overview
Chan Wing Yan, a young police officer, has been sent undercover as a mole in the local mafia. Lau Kin Ming, a young mafia member, infiltrates the police force. Years later, their older counterparts, Chen Wing Yan and Inspector Lau Kin Ming, respectively, race against time to expose the mole within their midst.
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Top critics, in their words
94%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Beauty in its consistent, washed-out blues and silvers, grace in its understated, intense male performances and energy in its unyielding commitment to tone and tension.
Allison Benedikt, Chicago Tribune
Fresh
What makes it special is the inner turmoil caused by living a lie. If everyone you know and everything you do for 10 years indicates you are one kind of person, and you know you are another, how do you live with that?
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh
A beautifully crafted, exciting story that keeps on surprising you to the very end.
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Fresh
This is what movies are supposed to feel like -- provocative, exciting, chilling, complex and fully engaging.
Tom Long, Detroit News
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