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Hong Kong Detective Movie: 'Infernal Affairs'

A new detective film has taken Hong Kong by storm. Now Infernal Affairs, an interlocked story of police undercover work targeting gangs, is opening in the United States. NPR's Bob Mondello has a review.

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Bob Mondello, who jokes that he was a jinx at the beginning of his critical career — hired to write for every small paper that ever folded in Washington, just as it was about to collapse — saw that jinx broken in 1984 when he came to NPR.