Gam yuk fung wan II: To fan (1991)

Gam yuk fung wan II: To fan: Directed by Ringo Lam. With Chow Yun-Fat, Sung-Young Chen, Elvis Tsui, Victor Hon. Ching escapes from prison to see his young son, who he has been put in an orphanage. And that puts him in great danger.

“I happened to get the chance to sit down and watch both parts I and II of the u0026quot;Prison On Fireu0026quot; movies; one after another. I thoroughly enjoyed the first movie, so I was looking forward to binging part II immediately after.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWhile u0026quot;Prison On Fire IIu0026quot; (aka u0026quot;Gam yuk fung wan II: To fanu0026quot;) was adequately enjoyable, it wasnu0026#39;t quite as good as the first movie. Why? Well, for my personal preference they had opted to put a bit too much of comedy into it, or at least elements of comedy. It just felt very much out of place, and it just dumbed down the movie unnecessarily.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIt was nice, though, that both writer Yin Nam and director Ringo Lam returned to the helm the movie. Not to mention Chow Yun Fat retuning to his role, along with some other familiar faces in the inmate crowd.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eu0026quot;Prison On Fire IIu0026quot; is watchable and entertaining enough for what it turned out to be. But personally I was not a fan of the attempt to introduce elements of comedy into the movie, when they needed to make the movie more gritty and harsh.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eMy rating of this 1991 u0026quot;Prison On Fire IIu0026quot; movie is a mediocre five out of ten stars.”