Review of Infernal Affairs II (2003) by Tim F — 16 Jan 2011

Suprisingly, in this one they go back to where the two guys take on their seperate paths. We get to know just why these things are happening, how the situation was before and how the SP and Sam knew eachother.

Here we see even more the underlying drive and the importance of 'family'. Also other values, which again differ a lot from western values, are set above other things like revenge, honor, serving for you country,.

.. A nice metaphore is used here; What comes around, goes around' and all of this is very precisely and accurately depicted into the movie. I thought we saw more of the undercover cop in this one than the snitch in the first.

A trifecta of timelines is used to see the evolution between both sides and again lean very close to realism. Sometimes an unexplainable thing happens according to what happened in the first, but this is then later nicely recovered, making a good plot.

The music and emotion are again key, often symbolised, trough the stereo for example. There are also some goofs, or whatever you could call it, like Sam likes to eat extremely large portions of food,he's always laughing, the usage of the word 'sorry' and again typical cultural differences.

The story is about the first metaphore and about passing the point of no return, all covered with dramatic sequences and few but good action-scenes. I hope the third is a little more action-packed, but it doesn't need to be.

Good, clarifying and solid action-thriller!