Three-6 Mafia: 1, Scorsese: Almost 1
In his latest triumph, Martin Scorsese succeeds where few before him have: filming a remake that trumps the original in all respects. Seamlessly transporting Hong Kong's Infernal Affairs to the rough-and-tumble streets of South Boston, The Departed is about undercover police officer Billy Costigan (DiCaprio), who is hiding in boss Frank Costello's (Nicholson) Irish Mafia. His foil, Colin Sullivan (Damon), is Costello's prot‚g‚ and is recently promoted to head the Boston P.D.'s Internal Service Unit. When it becomes clear that there is a mole in each organization, the pressure is on each agent to expose the other, lest either be discovered and killed.