Internal Affairs (1990)
Directed by Mike Figgis
Keen young Raymold Avila joins the Internal Affairs Department of the Los Angeles police. He and partner Amy Wallace are soon looking closely at the activities of cop Dennis Peck whose financial holdings start to suggest something shady. Indeed Peck is involved in any number of dubious or downright criminal activities. He is also devious, a womaniser, and a clever manipulator, and he starts to turn his attention on Avila.
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Scorsese's big screen adaptation is based upon Hong Kong co-directors Alan Mak and Andrew Lau Wai Keung's 2002 smash hit crime thriller "Internal Affairs".
The title is a play on the words “Internal Affairs,” the police subdepartment that investigates misconduct from within the ranks.
Strategist Wang (Andy Lau, Yimou's "The House of Flying Daggers," who also played the same role as Damon's "The Departed" character in the film on which that was based, "Internal Affairs"), who has devised the Nameless One's incredible weaponry, is interested in the stone.
He plays an officer in Internal Affairs and he is riveting in every scene he has.
Production Designer Waldemar Kalinowski ("Leaving Las Vegas," "Internal Affairs," "Powder") gives the film a vivid look, almost caressing racers such as the purple 240SX, the yellow Skyline and the red RX7 as they flash past against the softer colors of residential neighborhoods or in contrast with the darkness of the urban night or the light of the desert day.
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A brutal, fierce, and tense police thriller, "Training Day" takes a well-worn format and infuses it with freshness and verve, transcending its derivative elements to form a more than worthy companion to the likes of "The French Connection" and "Internal Affairs".
The award-winning novelist had previously written the screenplays to such movies as "Internal Affairs" and the fantastic "Deep Cover."
The nervy, adrenaline-fueled opening minutes of Sundance success “The Believer” suggest that Henry Bean, a proven screenwriter on “Internal Affairs” and “Enemy of the State,” also has an accomplished directorial style all of his own.
"The Believer," written and directed by Henry Bean (writer of "Enemy of the State" and "Internal Affairs"), is the antithesis of usual Hollywood fare.
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