Infernal Affairs 3 (2003)

Infernal Affairs 3: Directed by Andrew Lau, Alan Mak. With Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Andy Lau, Leon Lai, Daoming Chen. Months after the events of the original film, Ming suspects a police superintendent as being a new mole for the triads, while years earlier, Yan embarks on his first mission.

“If you loved the first two u0026#39;Internal Affairsu0026#39; movie, then youu0026#39;ll probably find it easy to also enjoy this concluding part: if not, you may find it more difficult. Part one was a tense thriller; part two, more epic in tone, a prequel that filled in the back story, concentrating on some of the secondary characters from the first film. But itu0026#39;s not completely clear where thereu0026#39;s any plot left to fill a third part. What this film does is overlay the previous stories with an additional layer of romanticism and complexity; but thereu0026#39;s a certain lack of focus to the plot, with almost all of our favourite characters already dead by the end of the second film (although, in flashback, thereu0026#39;s a rebirth for the great Tony Leung, absent from part two). Indeed, the film works almost entirely by encouraging us to feel differently about scenes we have already witnessed. I still liked this third story about the quiet men of violence, and it did succeed in feeling like something more than just a repeat of the earlier films. But itu0026#39;s not so clear how much it adds to them.”