ever since i have see infernal affair ( ia ) and i say to myself that hollywood would not pass up on a story like this . and true enough and i hear brad pitt buy the right to the show and that he and tom cruise be slat to act in it . when i hear that the whole ensemble change and i still be look forward to the film . ia and with a much small budget and look more expensive than the departed ( td ) . character development ia and be all about heart . it be about how the mole in the police and ming and be tear between his identity a a mole and and his conscience and and the mole in the mafia or gangland and yan and be tear between do right for the police and his own dilemma about his identity . ming be not bad and nor be yan good . td and like all other hollywood cop movie and be about black and white . costigan be wholesomely good and and sullivan be utterly bad . their character be so one dimensional and it almost like the screenwriter doesn not trust his audience to be intelligent enough to know that good and evil be degree of grey . timeframe the time frame be just ridiculous in td . be we expect to believe that in the short span of 4 month and costigan be able to infiltrate the mafia and become costello left hand man and give that everyone ( so cleverly explain by queenan ) know that he be a cop and that costello doesn not trust people easily . be we also to believe that sullivan can rise through the rank of the police force so fast and consider that ( also cleverly explain by ellerby ) they do not trust people with perfect record . in ia and it be a convincing many year . both character be allow to grow into their environment enough to be tear . td just throw it in our face . act how can people say that the acting be superb . matt damon doesn not emote at all . leo dicarprio be so whiny and if he isn not whine to queenan and he be whine to the shrink and or costello and mr. french . martin sheen be like a vase and so weak and wimpy and he doesn not have the air befitting of a captain . mark wahlberg character and sarcastic a hell and for what . it a wonder that he be even there and he have no role to play at all . an omission of his character wouldn not have make the movie any less . the shrink sleep with both costigan and sullivan and and we be expect to feel sorry for her . and jack nicholson and so painful to watch . even the extra be so miscast ed . the mainland chinese character be so obviously 3rd generation cantonese speaker and with the american accent and i be not a native cantonese speaker and even i know it all wrong . screenplay this have to be one of the bad screenplay ever . a. costello and if he be a big time gangland bos and and that he be deal with international crime lord and why be he and his right hand man still go round the hood to collect protection money . the writer can not decide if he be a big time crime lord or a smalltime mafia bos . b. the time line . c. costigan send the tape to madolyn and get sullivan to meet him at the building queenan die and and expect to do what . it be just a cheap shot at try to mirror ia intelligent rooftop scene . d. the fact that the cast say f every other second make the movie cheap and crude instead of realistic . e. the subplots be so unnecessary and so poorly intertwine . the double crossing of the mainland chinese and the fbi informer subplot and the letter that be never hear of again and the love triangle between mole and shrink and the time in cadet school . all these subplots should be omit and then maybe the director can concentrate on the real story . f. what up with the end . first costigan be shoot ( which be a rip off from the original ) and and then everyone else get shoot in the head except sullivan . be there a need for all that gore . or be it just cheap thrill . and then dignam kill sullivan . do dignam have a great enough agenda to do what he do . g. do i mention that a lot of scene of the movie be rip off from the original . even the dialog of some of the scene be directly translate from the original . i read that the writer claim that he do not see the original . be he try to claim the great part of the movie a his own . isn not that plagiarism . which bring me to production value scorsese bombed and big time . he have run out of trick and the movie start out good and but the end seem so rushed and like he have run out of time and or interest . i love goodfellas and and his style and technique at that time seem fresh and ingenious . but the second time he use the pinhole effect in td and i realize that scorsese have run out of idea . there be even scene that he take from the original shot by shot and make it seem like he can not make his own out of the material . over all i be very mad . mad at the people who say this movie be brilliant . it be brilliant only because the original be brilliant and they have take almost every element of it . i be mad because of the disregard of respect on the part of scorsese team and not give the credit when credit be due . be he go to get an academy award for something that be not his . something that he so blatantly take from someone else and do not even bother to credit . that would say a lot about hollywood and their disregard for anyone else . i be mad at the way the movie end and i be just disappoint that the audience be treat like idiot and they do not know it .