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Island of Fire
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Island Of Fire is a 1990 Hong Kong prison film with an Ensemble Cast including Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Andy Lau, Tony Leung, Jimmy Wang Yu, and directed by Taiwanese director Kevin Chu who previously collaborated with Chan and Wang-yu in Fantasy Mission Force.When Andrew (Tony Leung) witnessed the murder of his father-in-law and the assassin responsible subsequently being killed by a car bomb, he realize a conspiracy is at large, and he can only find out the truth by going undercover in a high-security prison as a prisoner. There, Andrew meets a colourful cast of prisoners, including mob boss Uncle Lucas (Jimmy Wang Yu), and convicts Lee (Andy Lau), Da Chui (Jackie Chan) and Fatty (Sammo Hung), all whom are actually good men who ends up being screwed by the legal system and sentenced to jail for one reason or another. But as days in prisons drags into months, every prisoner soon enough becomes gradually stripped of their humanity and ends up becoming pawns of a bigger operation.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Mostly remembered by audiences to be that Jackie Chan movie which suddenly and inexplicably becomes a Heroic Bloodshed in the last 15 minutes, where the final scene inexplicably have the main characters walking into the set of a John Woo film. | |
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In the Back | |
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Da Chui's flashback involves him accidentally killing a punk when said punk whips out a pocket knife and tries stabbing him In the Back, only for Da Chui to dodge aside and slam said punk into a door, causing the knife to end up in the punk's stomach. | |
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Back-to-Back Badasses | |
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Back-to-Back Badasses: Happens in the last 15 minutes, when the movie inexplicably enters John Woo / Heroic Bloodshed territory, and Andrew, Lee, Da Chui and Fatty are reduced to mindless killers and sent to assassinate a South-East Asian dictator. | |
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Bar Brawl | |
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Bar Brawl:Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); }) | |
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Accidental Murder | |
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Accidental Murder: Da Chui's flashback involves him accidentally killing a punk when said punk whips out a pocket knife and tries stabbing him In the Back, only for Da Chui to dodge aside and slam said punk into a door, causing the knife to end up in the punk's stomach. Fatty's last escape attempt from the prison quarry ends with him hijacking a police cruiser and unintentionally running into - and killing - a prison guard. | |
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The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.
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Barefoot Captives / int_982a6b9c | |
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Black Site / int_982a6b9c | |
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Dueling Dubs / int_982a6b9c | |
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External Combustion / int_982a6b9c | |
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Heroic Bloodshed / int_982a6b9c | |
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Prison Films / int_982a6b9c | |
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Rodent Cellmates / int_982a6b9c | |
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The Alcatraz / int_982a6b9c | |
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Throwing Your Gun at the Enemy / int_982a6b9c |
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