Rock and roll filmmaking! This is so much better than the dreary and dragging Departed - which has never been my favorite Scorsese film. Tony Leung is magnetic as an undercover cop who is losing his identity. But the film’s ability to shift tones from romance, to violent gunplay, to mobster melodrama to slapstick comedy and Hitchcockian thriller is its greatest trick.
An absolute masterpiece!
*Film at Lincoln Center - Tony Leung Tribute Series