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Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786304856383 Format: Color, NTSC ISBN: 6304856385 Label: Tai Seng Video Marketing Languages: Manufacturer: Tai Seng Video Marketing Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Tai Seng Video Marketing Release Date: April 24, 2001 Running Time: 93 minutes Studio: Tai Seng Video Marketing Theatrical Release Date: 1987 Editorial Review: Amazon.com: This solid 1987 big-house melodrama costars Tony Leung Kar-fai (The Lover) as a bespectacled innocent, perhaps mentally impaired, who is unjustly imprisoned. Behind bars he is befriended by a life-loving reprobate (Chow Yun-fat) who displays his cool by rolling a lit cigarette over his knuckles, in a risky variation on the George Raft silver dollar trick. Director Ringo Lam jacks up the visceral tension effectively, even though Leung's character is too naive to be true. Chow is in top form, however, enduring even more brutal beatings than in A Better Tomorrow. All prison exposé films are essentially the same, but this one has a few unusual wrinkles: there are no intimations of that American slammer staple, homosexuality, though close fraternal attachments are suggested in a lyrical Christmas party dance sequence. --David Chute Average Rating:
 Rating:  - This Amazon.com entry is incorrect, but still a good movieFirstly, let me state that the movie you purchase off this page is not the movie anything else on the page refers to. That movie can be found at (at the time of my post) http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/6305161461/qid=1143000381/sr=8-12/ref=sr_1_12/104-6669544-4164763?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=130 This movie does not have Chow Yun-Fat in it, is decidedly not a martial arts flic, and is not a story of an inmate guiding another; nor is this movie made on the kind of budget that even ... Read More Rating:  - wrong movieNot Ringo Lam and not Chow Yun-fat, This is a much newer movie. Rating:  - The Shawshank Last Castle RedemptionWhen I first read about this movie, I was expecting a fire in a prison and Chow and his buddy trying to get out. What I got instead was a beautiful drama about friendship in the midst of prison. It was almost a combination of "The Shawshank Redemption" and "The Last Castle." The acting was wonderful. And for a prison drama, it was very tender. The characters were great and you could feel yourself bonding with them. If you don't mind a good foreign film you have to read, Prison on Fire is a good movie ... Read More Rating:  - one of the films that made Chow great...Audiences used to Western style cinema might poo-poo at the melodramatic sentiments of this film. It is melodramatic and at times unrealistic (I mean how many times can a guy get beaten but not die? ) but it is also without a doubt different. This is not an American prison film by any means which is reason enough to watch it. Also despite the gritty violence that Ringo Lam is known for, this is not a Midnight Express type film. Sure, there is the bad guard but there are also good guards. Read More |
