BEST: The Departed (2006)
Original: Infernal Affairs (2002)
Your rank: #2 (21.73% of vote)
We say: Director Martin Scorsese transplanted the original cat-and-mouse thriller from gleaming Hong Kong to the gritty streets of South Boston, where Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio play a gangster pretending to be a cop or vice versa. It's not thought of as Scorsese's finest work, but it did win him his long-overdue Oscar.
Your rank: #2 (21.73% of vote)
We say: Director Martin Scorsese transplanted the original cat-and-mouse thriller from gleaming Hong Kong to the gritty streets of South Boston, where Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio play a gangster pretending to be a cop or vice versa. It's not thought of as Scorsese's finest work, but it did win him his long-overdue Oscar.
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