Fight Back to School
1991 1h 40m movie Film Hong Kong

Fight Back to School

逃學威龍

Synopsis

逃學威龍

Star Chow is about to be kicked out of the Royal Hong Kong Police's elite Special Duties Unit. But a senior officer decides to give him one last chance: Star must go undercover as a student at the Edinburgh High School in Hong Kong to recover the senior officer's missing revolver.

Action + Comedy in Hong Kong

150 Hong Kong titles in our catalog blend the Action and Comedy genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding Fight Back to School itself).

The 1990–1992 Hong Kong Window

Fight Back to School holds position #25 of 73 Hong Kong films in the 1990–1992 window, below highlighted by audience rating.

  1. The Best of the Martial Arts Films
    #1

    The Best of the Martial Arts Films

    ★ 8.8 · 1990
  2. The Greed of Man
    #2

    The Greed of Man

    ★ 7.9 · 1992
  3. Hard Boiled
    #3

    Hard Boiled

    ★ 7.6 · 1992
  4. Bullet in the Head
    #4

    Bullet in the Head

    ★ 7.6 · 1990
  5. Song of the Exile
    #5

    Song of the Exile

    ★ 7.6 · 1990
  6. Days of Being Wild
    #6

    Days of Being Wild

    ★ 7.3 · 1990
  7. Center Stage
    #7

    Center Stage

    ★ 7.3 · 1991
  8. Once Upon a Time in China
    #8

    Once Upon a Time in China

    ★ 7.2 · 1991

The 1990s Hong Kong Landscape

Catalog density by release year across the 1990s in Hong Kong, 215 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Fight Back to School premiered alongside 22 others.

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Position in Catalog

Released alongside 22 other Hong Kong films in 1991.

The 324th Hong Kong title from Hong Kong we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1955).

Our Hong Kong catalog contains 836 titles in total (828 films).

Audience Engagement

104
Reviews
81st
Review-volume percentile
66th
Popularity percentile

104 audience reviews — more than 81% of Hong Kong films in our index.

Review volume (81th percentile) outruns trending popularity (66th) — a durable title with sustained audience attention.

Reception Benchmarks

6.7
TMDB Rating
104
Audience Reviews
Well Received
Critical Tier

Ranked #236 of 836 Hong Kong films indexed here (72nd percentile by TMDB audience score).

Rating is +0.4 points above the Hong Kong average of 6.3/10.

Among Hong Kong Action productions specifically: #146 of 516 (top 28%).

Production Details

Primary CountryHong Kong
Original LanguageCantonese
Spoken LanguagesCantonese, Mandarin
Production Companies永盛電影公司, 三和電影製作, Win's Movie Productions, Samico Films Production Co., Ltd.
Runtime1h 40m
Release DateJuly 18, 1991
IMDbtt0103045