Island of Fire (1990)

Original title

火燒島

Directed by

Chu Yen-ping

Genre

drama film, comedy film, action film, prison film, thriller film, martial arts film

Country

Hong Kong

Runtime

2h 05m

Rated

IIB

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 144 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A cop goes undercover in a brutal prison island to investigate a series of murders. He teams up with other inmates to take down the corrupt prison officials.

action-packedtensegrittydramaticfast-pacedviolentearneststylish

What happens

Island of Fire (Chinese: 火燒島) is a 1990 action film directed by Kevin Chu, and starring Jackie Chan, Andy Lau, Sammo Hung, Tony Leung Ka-fai and Tou Chung-hua. A Taiwanese-Hong Kong co-production, the film was shot in Taiwan and the Philippines in 42 days from 5 April until 17 May 1989. The film's theme song, "The Last Gunshot" (最後一槍) by Cui Jian, was written as a response to the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre in Beijing, China. This is the third collaboration between producer Jimmy Wang Yu and Jackie Chan, With their first, collaboration being Killer Meteors in 1976, the film's producer and co-star, Jimmy Wang Yu, came to Chan's aid when the then young actor sought his help in settling a dispute with the veteran director Lo Wei. The dispute was settled by Golden Harvest paying 10 million HK dollars (2 million US dollars) to Lo Wei. Chan repaid the favor by acting in Wang's 1983 film Fantasy Mission Force. As with both of those earlier films, recent DVD and VHS releases market Island of Fire & Jackie Chan Is the Prisoner as a Jackie Chan film, displaying an image of Chan on the cover as though the lead actor. In fact, Chan only appears in a supporting role, with Tony Leung Ka-fai as the central character. The film was followed by a sequel, Island of Fire 2 (1997), also directed by Kevin Chu. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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