Rapid Fire (1992)

User Rating:

5.8/10   

Director:

Dwight H. Little

Writers (WGA):

Cindy Cirile (story) and
Alan B. McElroy (story) ...

Release Date:

21 August 1992 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller

Tagline:

Unarmed and extremely dangerous.

Plot:

When student Jake Lo witnesses a killing, he finds himself caught between two feuding drug lords. Betrayed...

Plot Keywords:

Martial Arts | Heroin Smuggling | Heroin | Nude Modeling | Surveillance

Cast

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

Runtime:

95 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

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

Company:

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

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.

Goofs:

Continuity: The blood dripping out of Jake's mouth after he crashes his motorcycle through the window.

Quotes:

Mace Ryan: [to his lovely assistant] Go buy yourself a bag of doughnuts.

Movie Connections:

References Ging chat goo si (1985)

Soundtrack:

I'll Be There

Brandon Lee: Arse-kicking under-grad

'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