Infernal Affairs III

“The Ultimate Showdown.”

Lau Kin-ming (Andy Lau), a triad plant who became a senior police inspector, needs one thing: to stay clean while the ground tightens around him. The film moves between the years before and after the first picture, with Chan Wing-yan (Tony Leung Chiu-wai) in the earlier stretch and Shen Cheng (Chen Daoming) closing in. Andrew Lau and Alan Mak treat it as a plain question of what a man gives up to keep a name that was never really his.