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It came to my attention this morning that some of you may have not yet seen Na Hong-jin’s The Chaser. That’s ok – I have a back log of movies to catch up on myself and hey, we’re busy people. But it also came to my attention that some of you may be waiting for the inevitable American remake. This is unacceptable.
We don’t want a repeat of the incident a few years ago where I was forced to drag some of you out of the theaters by the legs, hitting you over the head with the DVD of Infernal Affairs before the opening credits of The Departed had played.
Plus this time I have a claw hammer.
The Departed would have been a pretty good film in its own right had it not been up against an original so brilliantly conceived and assembled as Infernal Affairs. It even had the whole Mark Wahlberg thing where I was trying to figure out what the point of his character was until the end where I realised: he was there to stop them having to make a prequel and sequel.
Still I’d rather have had the choice to see Infernal Affairs on the big screen instead of The Departed.