[1] The film stars Huang Bo, Wang Baoqiang, Shu Qi, Lay Zhang, and Yu Hewei.

Passengers of a sea bus, including brothers Ma Jin and Xiao Xing, and their colleagues, get stuck in an island and are forced to survive with each other.

Meanwhile, Ma Jin and Xiao Xing discover a way to unite the passengers for survival by selling them fishes with playing cards as money, in which Xiao Xing immediately abused his power in and causing brotherly-relationship problems with Ma Jin.

Huang Bo stated that The Island is partly influenced by the 2009 American film 2012 directed by Roland Emmerich.

The film was a commercial and critical success, receiving a rating of 7.3 out of 10 from Douban.