Fatal Vacation (安樂戰場) is a 1989 Hong Kong action/suspense film written by Nam Yin and directed by Eric Tsang. The project was filmed on locations in the Philippines.
While on vacation in the Philippines, a Hong Kong touring bus and its occupants are kidnapped by Communist guerrilla rebels who wish to orchestrate an exchange with the government of the hostages for their jailed rebel leader.
In August 2010, over 20 years since the film's original release, The Manila Bulletin noted that the film's plot was echoed by a recent event in the Philippines, where a discharged policeman took a tour bus and its occupants hostage, writing "it’s quite uncanny how this movie shares 3 elements from what recently happened in the local news; the Philippines as the setting, Hong Kong tourists as characters, and a hostage crisis as plot. I know it shouldn’t be a subject for entertainment, but it really makes you think, is life imitating art?"
Robert Firsching of All Movie Guide was reminded of campy films such as Ernst von Theumer's Jungle Warriors by this film's "straight-faced melding of naive politics and ludicrously unconvincing gunplay." He writes, "To their credit, Tsang and Nam lay out a
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