Although it does not have a cohesive narrative, ISLAND OF FIRE works as an entertaining series of vignettes--assuming one checks all logic at the door. Released under a variety of names, both dubbed into English and in its original Chinese, the latter version is infinitely preferable for
subtitling so bad it verges on the surreal ("Are you mad on the pig" "Here is!"), before the subtitles disappear entirely for the final scene.
A police official is shot and his assassin killed when the assassin's getaway car mysteriously blows up. The assassin's fingerprints prove him to be a man supposedly executed in prison some time earlier, so policeman Wang Wei (Tony Leung ...
Released:
1991
Rated:
NR
Length:
92 mins