Chow Yun-Fat, Roy Cheung, and Cherie Chung in Wild Search (1989)

Chow Yun-Fat, Danny Lee, and Yueh Sun in City on Fire (1987)

Chow Yun-Fat in A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon (1989)

A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon

Chow Yun-Fat, Leslie Cheung, Dean Shek, and Lung Ti in A Better Tomorrow II (1987)

Chow Yun-Fat, Leslie Cheung, and Cherie Chung in Once a Thief (1991)

Chow Yun-Fat and Sung-Young Chen in Prison on Fire II (1991)

Sky is the lid of the coffin. Earth is the coffin. All happiness and sorrow are found inside it.

Chow Yun-Fat

Sung-Young Chen

Elvis Tsui

Yin Nam

Ching escapes from prison to see his young son, who he has been put in an orphanage. And that puts him in great danger.

Ringo Lam

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No City on Fire

Fans of &quot;City on Fire&quot; (1987), Ringo Lam&apos;s earlier team-up with Chow Yun-Fat, will sorely miss the compelling storyline and dynamic action scenes that Lam delivered 4 years before directing Prison on Fire II. The fight sequences, despite their nomination at the Hong Kong Film Festival, were lackluster. The characters don&apos;t mean anything to me. Finally, through no fault of anyone but the distributor, the English subtitles are so bad at times that I really hadn&apos;t the foggiest what the characters were saying. Again, not Lam&apos;s fault. Chow Yun-Fat does his nice-guy thing, but sadly never gets an opportunity to display his martial arts talents; instead he spends a lot of time picking himself up after getting beaten up. He pairs really well with Danny Lee in 1987: the two play off each other&apos;s sense of humor and share excellent fight scenes. Chow Yun-Fat was on his own in &quot;Prison on Fire&quot;, and the film suffers from the lack of acting talent. I can only hope that Lam was working on a more limited budget than he had for City on Fire, because this film lacks all the impressive effects and action that he deployed skillfully in the latter. There is little joy in this film.

Prison on Fire 2

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Fans of "City on Fire" (1987), Ringo Lam's earlier team-up with Chow Yun-Fat, will sorely miss the compelling storyline and dynamic action scenes that Lam delivered 4 years before directing Prison on Fire II. The fight sequences, despite their nomination at the Hong Kong Film Festival, were lackluster. The characters don't mean anything to me. Finally, through no fault of anyone but the distributor, the English subtitles are so bad at times that I really hadn't the foggiest what the characters were saying. Again, not Lam's fault. Chow Yun-Fat does his nice-guy thing, but sadly never gets an opportunity to display his martial arts talents; instead he spends a lot of time picking himself up after getting beaten up. He pairs really well with Danny Lee in 1987: the two play off each other's sense of humor and share excellent fight scenes. Chow Yun-Fat was on his own in "Prison on Fire", and the film suffers from the lack of acting talent. I can only hope that Lam was working on a more limited budget than he had for City on Fire, because this film lacks all the impressive effects and action that he deployed skillfully in the latter. There is little joy in this film.

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