Ready… Aim… šŸ”„! Jackie Chan, Andy Lau, Sammo Hung, Tony Leung and Wang Yu’s ‘Island on Fire’ on Blu-ray next week

Island on Fire | Blu-ray (88 Films)

Island on Fire | Blu-ray (88 Films)

Next week, 88 Films is releasing the Blu-ray (Region ABC) for 1990’s Island on Fire (aka The Prisoner), an all-star Hong Kong thriller directed by Chu Yen Ping (Fantasy Mission Force, Pink Force Commando).

Four men of iron face their destinies within the harsh walls of a Taiwanese prison. Steve (Jackie Chan) is a gambler seeking to atone for his sins. Andy (Tony Leung) is an undercover cop solving a crime. Lee (Andy Lau) is a gangster looking for vengeance. John (Sammo Hung) is a lifer seeking to reunite with his son.

For this slice of Chinese jailhouse rock, producer Wang Yu brought together both the finest talent in Asian cinema and the finest scenes from Bad Boys, Cool Hand Luke, Papillon and every classic Hollywood prison movie ever! Our heroes get time off for bad behaviour, leading to a furious final Wild Bunch-style showdown. Island of Fire sees Jackie Chan deliver a new level of fury!

Cast members in Island on Fire include Jackie Chan (Hidden Strike), Sammo Hung (God of War), Andy Lau (I Did It My Way), Jimmy Wang Yu (Wu Xia), Tok Chung Wa (Loving You) and O Chun Hung (Burning Ambition).

Limited Edition Features:

  • Rigid Slipcase with New Artwork by Sean Longmore
  • Booklet with notes: An Offer You Can’t Refuse by David West
  • Booklet with notes: Clothes Make The Chan/Breaking The Fourth Wall by Thorsten Boose

Features:

  • HD (1080p) Blu-rayTM presentation in original 1.85:1
    Aspect Ratio
  • 2.0 Cantonese Mono
  • 2.0 Mandarin Mono
  • 2.0 Alternate Mandarin Mono
  • 2.0 English Mono
  • Newly translated optional English subtitles
  • Audio commentary by Frank Djeng and F.J. DeSanto
  • Scenes from the Taiwanese Version
  • Interview with Jack Kao
  • Interview with Kevin Chu
  • Interview withĀ Wang Yu
  • Interview with Sammo Hung
  • Export End Credits
  • Export Trailer Reconstruction
  • Taiwanese Trailer
  • Japanese Trailer
  • Japanese TV Spot
  • Reversible sleeve featuring new art by Sean Longmore and original Hong Kong poster art

This title will soon beĀ available atĀ The Goodie Emporium, a U.S.-based online storeĀ thatĀ currently has many Import Shaw Brothers/Golden Harvest/martial arts DVD/Blu-ray movies in-stock ā€“ with New titles being added regularly!

Check out the film’s original Trailer:



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9 Responses to Ready… Aim… šŸ”„! Jackie Chan, Andy Lau, Sammo Hung, Tony Leung and Wang Yu’s ‘Island on Fire’ on Blu-ray next week

  1. Typo says:

    Is the cover art a joke?

    What is Jackie Chan doing? Imitating Stallone?

    But it’s a nice little good news, hoping we’ll get the Taiwanese cut restored too.

  2. cuttermaran says:

    I thought the same, lately Jackie Chan seems to be mocked on those Bluray covers every time a new release is coming.
    Police Story III comes to mind from from 88 films, also Police Story Trilogy from Eureka has a weird choice of Jackie doing a stunt while grimacing. And now this one, what’s going on?

  3. Dan says:

    “Starring Jackie Chan” is being generous, lol.

  4. Andrew Hernandez says:

    I just never understood this film. Tony Leung KF has to get himself arrested and thrown in prison to find out who killed his boss, but once heā€™s there, that plot gets thrown out the window and heā€™s just some guy serving his sentence.

    Sammo is a guy who keeps breaking out of prison to see his son before getting caught again, but he just gets more years added to his sentence and doesnā€™t benefit from it.

    Jackie needs money to pay for his girlfriendā€™s surgery, but accidentally kills someone in self defense, and then heā€™s just another guy serving his sentence with no more mention of his story. Then Andy Lau gets shoe-horned in there.

    The movie then proceeds to be a compilation of scenes ripped off from better prison films before becoming Nikita for no reason and doing a terrible job of ripping off John Woo. When I first rented this at the video store in high school, I was confused as hell.

    88 isnā€™t releasing the likes of The Mighty Gambler, Kickboxerā€™s Tears, or Dragon Fight 1990, but theyā€™ll release this?

    • Ska Martes says:

      Those other movies you mentioned donā€™t star Jackie Chan soā€¦..

      I know its objectively a bad movie because of the reasons you listed and more, but I canā€™t help but love it. Iā€™m a sucker for prison movies with all the tropes and a sense that sheet will only get worse and worse. And this movies delivers this in spades. And it has a killer end credit song

      • Andrew Hernandez says:

        Well, this didnā€™t star Jackie Chan either. He was a supporting actor, and this was marketed as a starring vehicle to trick people. If 88 and Eureka can release other films that donā€™t star A-listers, they can certainly do those other 3 films.

        This movie is also tainted because Jimmy Wang Yu allegedly used his triad connections to ā€œconvinceā€ the other actors to be in a piece of shit that they wanted nothing to do with.

  5. Ska Martes says:

    Those other movies you mentioned don’t star Jackie Chan so…..

    I know its objectively a bad movie because of the reasons you listed and more, but I can’t help but love it. I’m a sucker for prison movies with all the tropes and a sense that sheet will only get worse and worse. And this movies delivers this in spades. And it has a killer end credit song

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