RATING: 5/5
During the late 1980s, Hong Kong director Ringo Lam was on top of the world with two of his "On Fire" trilogy: PRISON ON FIRE and CITY ON FIRE (both released in 1987). But his third and final "On Fire" trilogy, SCHOOL ON FIRE was greeted with muted response back in 1988. It was such a miserable flop that it only ran a one-week theatrical run and quickly fizzled out at the Hong Kong box office. However, I must say this hugely underrated SCHOOL ON FIRE is surprisingly ranked as Ringo Lam's finest cinematic masterpiece ever made. Never before I've seen a Hong Kong's high-school melodrama so engrossing, yet so remarkably intense that you can almost feel the heat ignited throughout the movie.
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