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<\/a><\/p>\nStarring: Andy Lau, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Anthony Wong, Eric Tsang, Edison Chen, Shawn Yue, and Carina Lau.
\nThe developers of Sleeping Dogs, the game, as well as voice talent Will Yun Lee and Edison Chen will be at the screenings.<\/p>\n
Ten years ago, INFERNAL AFFAIRS appeared on the scene and rocked the Hong Kong box office, won 23 film awards, and ultimately got remade by Martin Scorsese as The Departed, which won him his first \u201cBest Director\u201d Oscar (as well as Oscars for \u201cBest Adapted Screenplay\u201d and \u201cBest Picture\u201d). But what a lot of people don\u2019t know is that the sequel, INFERNAL AFFAIRS 2, is even better than the first movie, and taking the two together is an intense cinematic experience equivalent to watching The Godfather 1 & 2 back-to-back.<\/p>\n
INFERNAL AFFAIRS is the ultimate \u201cwhy didn\u2019t I think of that\u201d high concept: a cop goes undercover as a gangster while, simultaneously, a gangster infiltrates the police force, pretending to be a cop. These two sleeper agents live underground for years before a series of mistakes clues in all the wrong people as to what\u2019s going on and each mole is ordered to root out the problem, which in both cases happens to be themselves. It\u2019s the Philip K. Dick movie that Michael Mann always wanted to direct, starring Tony Leung (In the Mood for Love) as the undercover cop, and pop star Andy Lau (A Simple Life) as the over-achieving gangster who\u2019s infiltrated the police. Chris Doyle, Wong Kar-wai\u2019s collaborator and the cinematographer on Zhang Yimou\u2019s Hero, consulted on the visuals, and the film is saturated with toxic chromium hues that turn its elaborate setpieces into individual slices of hell.<\/p>\n
But its prequel, INFERNAL AFFAIRS 2, ups the stakes spectacularly. Edison Chen plays the young Andy Lau and Shawn Yue plays a young Tony Leung, but the movie belong to their dueling father figures: Eric Tsang as the despotic triad mastermind, and Anthony Wong, the kind, patient cop who is Tony Leung\u2019s handler. IA2 turns the first film upside down, revealing that the heroes of IA1 are amoral villains who\u2019ll do anything for a promotion, and that the villains are decent men trying to make the best of intolerable situations. The intense Francis Ng joins the cast as a straightlaced son who, reluctantly, takes over the triad after his father is killed, and Carina Lau plays Eric Tsang\u2019s ambitious wife. A hot-blooded throwback to the big, actor-intensive cop dramas of the 1970\u2019s, INFERNAL AFFAIRS 1 & 2 writes its story in burning blood, on paper made of ice. It\u2019s a one-two punch of cinematic greatness.<\/p>\n