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It's not a very known movie, but I love it! For me, the characters were good and the first 90 minutes of the HK version of the movie were great, but the shootout in the ending makes us feel that it doesn't fit right in the film. But in my opinion, its a very good film, and has some scenes that will makes us feel grateful for our lives, specially the scene when Sammo Hung escapes prison to see his son. Jackie isn't very active in this film, but he does some good scenes as well.
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars
01/25/23
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good chopsoky actioner.
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
01/21/23
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They basically pulled a Red Sonja with this one.
Portray a high actor, and then have nothing to do with him.
Very boring, terrible plot, and.. a lot of confusion.
Not a Jackie movie in the least. Don't be fooled by the grunting face on the cover.
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Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars
02/20/23
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An undercover Cop (Jackie Chan) finds himself locked up in the most dangerous high security prison in Hong Kong. Almost beaten to death his first night, he is rescued at the last minute by a few fellow inmates. Together the three unveil a world of high-class criminals and corrupt prison officials. In a non-stop battle for their lives, they must combine their martial arts skills with hand to hand prison fighting to bring the corruptors to justice.
also stars Sammo Hung, Tony Leung, Yu Wang, Andy Lau, Chung-Hua Tao and Hsiung Chun.
directed by Yen-ping Chu.
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Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars
02/24/23
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sarfaraz a
Island of Fire ( 火燒島) directed by Chu Yen-ping. Starring Tony Leung Ka-fai, Sammo Hung, Jackie Chan, Andy Lau. Island of Fire was filmed in Taiwan and final scenes at Philippines.
Tony Leung is undercover police officer voluntarily hops inside prison to find out an assassin of his mentor, who was shown to have been executed few months earlier at remote prison. On his first day he is harassed and manhandled by inmates - forced to fight a strong opponent as the first rule of the prison; he befriends an inmate. Punishments include pot full of boiled rice to be eaten by single inmate, detention in dark cell and starvation over boiled potato - these tortures are perpetrated by warden's right-hand man guard. Jackie gets imprisoned for killing a card-player at gambling house while trying to win money for his girlfriend's operation; who was stabbed to death (unbeknownst to Jackie she is dead) - Sammo Hung is jolly but ready-made to flee the prison several times to (occasionally) meet his little son on his birthday or new year - Andy Lau is elder brother of the card-player killed by Jackie, he voluntarily gets inside to take revenge from Jackie.
Island of Fire should be fetish of diehard fans of Jackie-Sammo-Andy Lau-Tony Leung to see them all together. Although, Jackie, Sammo, and Andy are not central protagonists, but it is Tony Leung - the rest of three prove their brilliant filling of vacuum to (ever) had been left out. There are quality fight-scenes.
While watching this film you might recall movies like Cool Hand Luke (Paul Newman) during the scene when all inmates work on roads faster to save some time for rest and when a beautiful woman asks Sammo to change her tire - Lock-Up (Sylvester Stallone - Donald Sutherland) for torture and severe punishments - Escape From Alcatraz (Clint Eastwood) for rat being boiled by opponent.
Overall the film is magnificent to watch, taunting music-score and gloomy atmosphere as well as comedic touches from Sammo Hung.
NOTE:
1. Film was released in the US and UK with English version with 96min. duration HOWEVER I watched Taiwan version of 124min. duration which is recommended for analyzing each character's background.
2. Poster is misleading, Jackie is not in central role.
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars
03/30/23
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wow,I was 19 in that year...
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
02/08/23
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