Tweekums These comments are based on watching the English language US version of the film.After his friend is assassinated policeman Andy Lau is surprised to discover that the killer's fingerprints match those of a convict who had apparently been executed recently... either something is wrong with the computer records or something is very wrong at the prison. As it doesn't appear to be the former he agrees to go undercover in the prison to uncover the truth. The prison is a brutal place and Andy has nobody to go to if he gets in trouble. In the prison we are introduced to other key characters; John 'Fatty' Liu, who keeps escaping to visit his son; Steve, who is marked for death because he accidentally killed a crime boss's brother and Lucas, the unofficial leader of the convicts.I don't know if it was just the version of the film I watched but it certainly seemed rather lacking. The most obvious weakness is that once in prison Andy barely bothers to investigate; he asked a few questions about the late assassin, got in trouble with Lucas, then he was just another prisoner who gets caught up in a few scrapes. Jackie Chan is sold as the lead actor but in reality he plays a secondary character; we do get to see some of his trademark action, which is rather fun, at least. Sammo Hung provides some of the film's more amusing moments as John. There is a reasonable amount of action; the regular fight scenes are pretty good but the shootouts are a bit unrealistic to say the least. The acting looked good enough but the dub is pretty poor; none of the voices really went well with their characters making them hard to believe in. Overall I'd only recommend watching this version of the film if you are desperate to see it and can't find a Chinese version with subtitles.

ebiros2 Story takes place in a prison. Jackie Chan, Andy Lau, Sammo Hung and few other stars of the era. The movie is supervised by Jackie Chan's old colleague Jimmy Wang Yu.The plot is about a prison where the convicts are part of a recruitment program to do special biddings for the government. The selection criteria is not obvious, but it seems that one's who had a fight in the prison and fought well got recruited. Who the true culprit is, and what twist in the plot there is at the end must be seen.It's one of few movie where Jackie is not the star. There's also a rare fight scene between Jackie and Andy Lau.It's hard to categorize what this movie is. It's a generic action movie, but there's lot of super A list actors appearing just as a co-star. Unfortunately they are under utilized, and the movie fails to achieve stellar performance it could have had.Maybe this was movie made based on friends getting together, and chipping in their talents. This would have been possible with someone with Jimmy Wang's clout. The movie is somewhat of an enigma in Hong Kong movie history.

indiekid42 okay to all the people calling this film a crap martial arts film i have news for you..........its NOT a martial arts film.Its a story that involves people caught up in a plot to assasinate people by the goverment prenouncing that they have died then using them as expendable assasins.It just so happens that there are martial arts stars in it people went to see hulk hogan in surburban commando and they didnt expect a wrestling film did they. Despite all that i think this is a great film that deserves to be remade so that most cinema goers around the world will have the chance to see this powerfull emotional film.8/10

bizzyd182 this is not what you would call an original jc film, the plot alone may turn some fans away. id say watch it before you judge.in some sense it still has some of chan's trademarks. helping defending and honesty,at first the film seems quite boring but after a while i was starting to enjoy it*****not one for the weak hearted*******