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Overview

User Rating:
5.8/10   2,811 votes
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Director:
Dwight H. Little
Writers (WGA):
Cindy Cirile (story) and
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Release Date:
21 August 1992 (USA) more
Genre:
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller more
Tagline:
Unarmed and extremely dangerous.
Plot:
When student Jake Lo witnesses a killing, he finds himself caught between two feuding drug lords. Betrayed... more | add synopsis
NewsDesk:
Rapid Fire Watchmen.
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Brandon Lee: Arse-kicking under-grad more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Brandon Lee ... Jake Lo
Powers Boothe ... Mace Ryan

Nick Mancuso ... Antonio Serrano

Raymond J. Barry ... Agent Frank Stewart
Kate Hodge ... Karla Withers

Tzi Ma ... Kinman Tau

Tony Longo ... Brunner
Michael Paul Chan ... Carl Chang

Dustin Nguyen ... Paul Yang
Brigitta Stenberg ... Rosalyn
Basil Wallace ... Agent Wesley
Al Leong ... Minh

François Chau ... Farris
Quentin O'Brien ... Agent Daniels
D.J. Howard ... Sharpie
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Additional Details

Runtime:
95 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby
Certification:
Canada:16+ (Quebec) | South Korea:18 | Canada:R (Manitoba/Nova Scotia) | USA:R (certificate #31442) | Finland:(Banned) (1992) | Finland:K-18 (2001) (cut) | Iceland:16 | New Zealand:R16 | Australia:M | Germany:18 | Singapore:NC-16 | Spain:13 | Sweden:15 | UK:18 | Norway:18 (video rating) (1992) | Norway:(Banned) (1992-2003) (cinema release) | Germany:BPjM Restricted
Filming Locations:
Chicago, Illinois, USA more

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Trivia:
Brandon Lee was a self-confessed Jackie Chan fan, who in turn was a fan of Lee's father Bruce Lee. Brandon pays homage to Chan by incorporating key moves from Ging chat goo si (1985) and Fei lung mang jeung (1988) in the final fight scenes. more
Goofs:
Continuity: The blood dripping out of Jake's mouth after he crashes his motorcycle through the window. more
Quotes:
Mace Ryan: [to his lovely assistant] Go buy yourself a bag of doughnuts. more
Movie Connections:
References Ging chat goo si (1985) more
Soundtrack:
I'll Be There more

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11 out of 12 people found the following comment useful:-
Brandon Lee: Arse-kicking under-grad, 12 May 2005
9/10
Author: AwesomeWolf from Australia

'Rapid Fire' goes down as one of my favourite Brandon Lee movies, joining 'Showdown in Little Tokyo', 'Laser Mission', and 'The Crow'. Oh wait. Yeah, I'm just a Brandon Lee fan boy. Brandon was awesome. 'Rapid Fire' is awesome.

Brandon plays Jake Lo, a college student majoring in arse-kicking. Jake witnesses the murder of a drug-lord by mafia boss Antonio Serrano (Nick Mancuso). Jake is put under the Witness Protection Program for a whole of five minutes before discovering that the agents supposed to protect him are, in fact, on Serrano's payroll. Jake has no choice but to team up with Chicago cop Mace Ryan (Powers Boothe) and kick some gangster arse. Awesome.

Right from the start, 'Rapid Fire' is pretty much a showcase for Brandon Lee's martial-arts abilities. He was awesome on-screen in this, as in his other movies, and could pull off some really cool action scenes. Apparently Brandon was a fan of Jackie Chan, and it shows in this: Brandon uses easily recognizable stunts and fights from 'Police Story' (among other movies) and does them just as well as Jackie Chan did originally.

You won't find any semblance of a plot in this. 'Rapid Fire' is an action movie, the only difference between this and any other action movie is that Brandon played a college student instead of any usual action hero type. Naturally, this college student also knows how to kick butt, so there goes any developed plot, in favour of Brandon Lee kicking arse. Awesome.

Simply, 'Rapid Fire' is an awesome action movie. Brandon Lee rocked, may he rest in peace - 9/10

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