Jackie Chan Is The Prisoner (1990)
Directed by Yin-Ping Chu / Kevin Chu
Genres - Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Comedy |
Sub-Genres - Action Thriller, Prison Film |
Release Date - Jan 1, 2000 (USA) |
Run Time - 96 min. |
Countries - Hong Kong, Taiwan |
MPAA Rating - R
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Synopsis by Jonathan Crow
Chu Yen-ping directs this all-star cast prison flick about cop Huang Wei (Tony Leung Kar-fai) who goes into the clink undercover to figure out how the fingerprints of a long deceased death-row inmate ended up at the scene of a recent murder. There he quickly runs afoul of gangland powers, making his life a living hell. His fellow inmates include Lung (Jackie Chan) who killed a card sharp to pay for an operation for his girlfriend; Triad (Andy Lau Tak-wah) who looking for the guy who killed his brother in jail; and Lui (Sammo Hung Kam-po) a sadsack con who regularly breaks out to visit his son. Later, Huang kills a prison guard and is sentenced to death. He soon learns that the jail's crazed warden is using supposedly executed criminals to kill crime bosses who are beyond the law.
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crime-lord, death-row, gang-war, inmate, murder, police-officer, prison, revenge, undercover, warden