Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Tony Leung Ka Fai

A cop goes undercover to infiltrate a deadly prison where a team of mercernaries is being assembled.

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R, 96 min.

Directed by: Yen-ping Chu

Release Date: January 1, 1990

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DVD Release Date: December 11, 2001

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  • July 3, 2008
    What the hell was this?
  • November 15, 2009
    'The Prisoner (aka Island of Fire)' Captures the Attention In Spurts

    I knew going in this isn't typical Jackie, or even very good Jackie, but it is on my dwindling list of unseen Jackie. Basically he appears in it as a 'favor' to a shifty filmmaker named Jimmy Wang Yu and has a...( read more)bout a quarter of the screentime. More heavy drama than humor, but you still get Sammo Hung and a host of other usual HK suspects, and you can play "spot the Cool Hand Luke scene" as a drinking game. Unique feature: Jackie gets gunned down, where else are you gonna see that? At worst, surely it's still a helluva lot better than any Van Damme/Chuck Norris/Steven Seagal greatest hits package.

    Fights/stunts:
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    with bags of money in bar with gangsters
    1-on-1 prison fight
  • September 4, 2009
    Jackie Chan is WAY better than Chuck Norris!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • August 1, 2009
    love jackie chan action
  • May 22, 2009
    didnt really feel it
  • January 19, 2009
    unfortunately this was disappointing :(
  • November 25, 2008
    una pelicula media dark pero entretenida
  • July 10, 2008
    not one of the best jackie chan movies i have ever seen as he was hardly in it..the co acting and stunts were very well done by sammo hung and tony leung. anytime sammo is in one of his movies he provides the humorous backbone. i did not like how jackie chan played a very little ...( read more)role in the movie and the movie mostly focused on the problems of sammo hung and tony leung. it wasnt until the end (which sort of didnt make sense) that they were all united in the movie. the storyline had some good parts and some not so good parts. i liked the prision idea and some of the fights, i did not like however, the way in which the prision was corrupt and they faked peoples deaths to make them hitmen..just needed a little different twist i thought.
  • June 28, 2008
    I feel really confused with this film because i don't know if this is action or a prison drama.

    I think the plot is never focused in a specific thing, is just an "all star reunion" where you don't know who have the lead role.

    By the way, puting Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Jimm...( read more)y Wang Yu and Andy Lau in a same film is a really great idea, but in this case, don't was well development.

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