Island of Fire

A police officer goes undercover as an inmate at a prison run by a corrupt administration, sent there to gather evidence of wrongdoing inside the walls. His investigation becomes more serious when he learns that prisoners are being declared dead and then used outside the prison as disposable killers. Locked in with violent convicts and brutal guards, he has to survive long enough to expose what is happening while his own physical and mental state comes under strain.

Island of Fire, originally titled 火燒島, was released in 1991 and is a Hong Kong and Taiwanese action crime drama running 124 minutes. Chu Yen-ping directed it, placing it between Fantasy Mission Force and Requital in his filmography. The screenplay is by Fu Li and Yip Wan-Chiu, and Jimmy Wang Yu and Ko Chun-Hsiung produced. The cast is led by Tony Leung Ka-fai, Sammo Hung, Jackie Chan and Andy Lau, with Jimmy Wang Yu and Tsung-Hua Tou also appearing among a credited cast of seventy. The film draws considerably on the star power of its leads.

Reception has been modest across the board. On IMDb it holds 5.7 from 3,856 votes, while on TMDB it sits at 6.3 from 150 votes, a slightly warmer audience response on the smaller sample. A film critics' rating of 4 out of 10 from 93 reviews is lower than either audience figure, indicating that reviewers were less taken with the film than general viewers were.