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But still, the practice of seeing the remake before the original can really switch up your ordinary "original is better than remake" perspective, because damn, Infernal Affairs sure made The Departed look like Citizen F-ing Kane.

One could also debate the effectiveness of giving each of the leads their own love interest (Leung's character has a thing with his court-ordered psychiatrist, while Lau's character dates a novelist whose story not-so-subtly reflects Lau's own inner conflict), but I personally reckon that, despite t...