Infernal Affairs 2002 123movies

#123movies #fmovies #putlocker #gomovies #solarmovie #soap2day Watch Full Movie Online Free – 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.
Plot: 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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Ratings:

	8.0/10 Votes: 118,316
	94%
	75/100
	7.8 Votes: 1007 Popularity: 9.785

Reviews:

At it’s heart, a gripping cop thriller
As cadets, Lau and Chan both show promise as police officers. However, Chan is removed from the training and send to be a long-term undercover in Sam’s gang. However, unbeknownst to the police, Lau is also a long-term mole who is feeding information back to Sam. When Sam and police chief SP Wong both have their operations scuppered, each realises the other has a mole and sets out to uncover each. With each other’s lives at risk, Lau and Chan must be the first to uncover the other.

I decided to see this after hearing good things about it but I was conscious that often foreign films can be given more leniency than Western films doing the same thing. After a slightly confusing opening few moments as characters settle down (not helped by using completely different actors for characters at late teens and late 20’s – do people change that much?) the film immediately becomes gripping. The plot may well have the occasional hole and have unnecessary personal details (Lau’s girlfriend and Chan’s ex weren’t really needed) but the central story is well written and told with such urgency that it is hard not to be totally engaged.

The film doesn’t have many massive shoot outs or action scenes but it has a pretty consistent sense of tension that is enjoyable right up to a typical but impacting ending. The direction is stylish and only occasionally overuses the slow-mo jump cuts. It may owe more to American cinema than that of the Orient but it is still a very good film and I hope the inevitable remake will be as good.

The cast don’t need to do that much apart from look intense and portray the tension of the story in a realistic fashion – something that they do well. At times the lead two actors are pushed out of this by the personal asides but they happily keep things on track. Both Lau and Leung play it very well – it never came down to good guy/bad guy and the audience was pretty well split. Wong is a solid officer while Tsang is good as Sam. Chen and Cheng may not have a great deal to do apart from slowing the film but they both look good doing it.

Overall this is a solidly enjoyable cop thriller, regardless of what country it comes from. It will eventually be remade I imagine and when it is I hope that it manages to retain it’s consistent sense of tension, double-edged characters and a real tight hold on it’s audience just as this did here.

A textbook thriller
A deceptively simple idea lies at the heart of this complex thriller: the Hong Kong police and a triad gang both have an informer in each other’s organisation: whoever’s man picks the enemies’ spy first wins the game for his side. Add to that the customary double-agent-doesn’t-know-which-side-he-is-on-anymore subplot (doubled, of course), and you have plenty of ingredients for a plot, although it’s to the movie’s credit that although a little stylised, it never seems false or contrived. Fast-paced and bold, with a generous score, it never insults the viewer’s intelligence either, and features just the right level of moral ambiguity. At one level, it’s just another thriller, and there’s little in the way of wider political or social subtext; but on the other hand, it’s a textbook lesson in the art of making this sort of film.

Other Information:

Original Language cn
Runtime 1 hr 41 min (101 min), 1 hr 37 min (97 min) (director’s cut) (Hong Kong)
Budget 125000
Revenue 8708932
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Director Andrew Lau, Alan Mak
Writer Alan Mak, Felix Chong
Actors Andy Lau, Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Anthony Chau-Sang Wong, Eric Tsang
Country Hong Kong
Awards 24 wins & 26 nominations.
Production Company Basic Pictures, Media Asia Films Ltd. [hk]
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Arriflex 535B, Optica Elite, Canon and Angenieux Lenses
Laboratory Shaw Brothers (Hong Kong) Limited, Hong Kong
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak Vision 250D 5246, Vision Expression 500T 5284)
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (2K) (master format), Elite Scope (anamorphic) (source format)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (Kodak Vision 2383)