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Weekly Theme for June 8: Undercover

Well, hello again from the Weekly Theme. Last week I finally watched Infernal Affairs. You know, that movie Hong Kong film Scorsese remade for the gold. I have to say, I thought the original was far better than the remake and I was actually pretty surprised at how close Marty stuck with all the original plot points. He just seemed to elongate the entire thing and add one more key character.

But I digress, I want to talk this week about all those great undercover films. I also recently watched a great private eye film by one of my favorite directors, Seijun Suzuki. It was Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell Bastards!!! This film was such a good time, but with a title like that it kinda had to be.

State of Grace is another good undercover cop film. I remember watching this. I remember liking it quite a bit when I was younger and I've been wanting to re-watch it lately to see if it still holds up.

Well, that's all I got for right now. So, what's you favorite undercover film?

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Well as far as I know The Departed is a remake of elements of all three movies in the Infernal Affairs trilogy.  That might be why The Departed is longer and has more elements than what you saw in just the first of the Infernal Affairs movies.

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Reservoir Dogs and the movie it largely ripped off, City on Fire are some of my favorite examples, especially since as the audience we aren't sure who is the undercover for a while either in the former.

White Heat should be mentioned as well.  Edmond O'Brien takes on James Cagney.

Oooooooh, it seems like there was another great one I just saw recently, but I just can't remember it!!!