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 with 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 be available at The Goodie Emporium, a U.S.-based online store that currently has many Import Shaw Brothers/Golden Harvest/martial arts DVD/Blu-ray movies in-stock â with New titles being added regularly!
Check out the film’s original Trailer:
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.
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?
“Starring Jackie Chan” is being generous, lol.
Releasing this idiotically plotted filth on Blu is being generous.
He’s one of the four leads. So since they’re all stars, yeah, it’s starring Jackie Chan.
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 heâs there, that plot gets thrown out the window and heâs 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 doesnât benefit from it.
Jackie needs money to pay for his girlfriendâs surgery, but accidentally kills someone in self defense, and then heâs 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 isnât releasing the likes of The Mighty Gambler, Kickboxerâs Tears, or Dragon Fight 1990, but theyâll release this?
Those other movies you mentioned donât star Jackie Chan soâŠ..
I know its objectively a bad movie because of the reasons you listed and more, but I canât help but love it. Iâm 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
Well, this didnât 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 donât 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 âconvinceâ the other actors to be in a piece of shit that they wanted nothing to do with.
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