The story of two people risking their lives every second. One is a Mafia agent for the police, the other is a policeman infiltrated by the Mafia. Each strives for one thing – to expose the enemy.

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Everything is learned by comparison. And although many people have different tastes, nothing can shake my confidence that love comes for a reason. Love for a particular cinematic work is a whole kolleidoscope of factors that, like dice, have fallen just so and not otherwise at the most opportune moment in time.

That’s why the answer to the question ‘Why do I like ‘Double Castling’ and not ‘The Departed’ is unambiguous – ‘It happened that way.

Though I don’t belittle the worthiness of the ‘Departed’ picture, I just don’t have any fan love with it, that’s all.

Although, it is very obvious that the Asian version is much easier to watch (I mean, watched with more interest), and the characters are much more charismatic.

Frankly, not a big fan of DiCaprio or Leung, but still…

Leonardo DiCaprio, no matter how hard he tried, failed to achieve that frankly aching tragedy which permeates every cell of Tony Leung’s character. I’m not going to argue, you might have noticed that Leung is repeating himself from 10 years ago, because we’ve already seen something similar in ‘Coolly Boiled’, but…

…No, still, it’s impossible not to empathize with his character.

The character of Andy Lau is the strongest and most vivid image of the picture. No offense, but he makes Meth Damon look bad. He’s just not yet up to that level, which Lau easily surpasses.

In a word, ‘Double Castling’ – a trilogy of life, a trilogy of the intricacies of fate, a tragedy of two people whose paths, according to no one knows whose will, intertwined so closely that by the third film they were literally on the same road.

And if ‘The Departed’ is simply a heavyweight that deservedly won its Oscar, ‘Double Castling’ is undoubtedly a masterpiece for all time.

Info Blu-ray
Video
Codec: HEVC / H.265 (66.9 Mb/s)
Resolution: Native 4K (2160p)
HDR: HDR10
Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1

Audio
Cantonese: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
Cantonese: Dolby Digital 5.1
French: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)

Subtitles
English, French.