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I love cheesy 80s action cinema. But even with my heavy bias, this movie sucked. First off, there isn't a single charismatic character. Brandon Lee lacks anything remotely qualifying as a personality as he dully recites badly written lines. His partner, a father-figure cop who fails to convince anybody of that, spends the entire movie telling cliché' "you can do it" lines. And the two main bad guys are boring as stale turds.They could have saved this movie by cranking up the bad acting--it's worked for countless actors who can't act: Van Damme, Schwarzenegger, Lundgren, etc. But the audience can forgive their lack of Oscar winning performances if they are at the very least memorable. After the credits roll, everyone in Rapid Fire is rapidly forgotten.According to IMDb, John Woo was Brandon's first choice for director. It's truly sad that a potentially awesome movie was butchered into mediocrity by an incompetent director.The fight scenes and shot outs are fairly decent. Don't expect any spectacular stunts or awesomely choreographed battles. Some of the fights were outright disappointing considering they play up Brandon as a martial arts bad ass. The gun play is enjoyable at best.The story was total garbage and Brandon couldn't pull off a single convincing emotion or joke. The dude was a mannequin with six-pack abs. And don't get me started on that godawful love story they tried to shove up our asses at the last second (face palm). With so many awesome 80s movies to watch, take my advice: Look elsewhere.

I watched this film after several people recommended it to me, and i must say, i enjoyed it quite a lot. Action scenes are very good, specially fight scenes. Brandon Lee is not only good fighter, but good actor as well. His roles in Rapid Fire and The Crow are his best and my personal favorites when it comes to his movies, even if there is only few of them. I wasn't fan of his acting in movies such as Showdown In Little Tokyo, but i would't call him a bad actor and still he had good sense of humor in that movie. I'm sure that he would be even better if he didn't die, which is quite sad cause he really did have potential. After watching workprints of The Crow, i could see that there were few takes of his scenes that were originally quite bad acting wise, but watching the movie again it's obvious that he was just getting started at this point of his career and that he would be better as long as he had good directors to give him some advices. As for his role in Rapid Fire,instead of being one of those unstoppable heroes that his father often portrayed in his movies, Brandon's character Jake Lo is normal human who is put into dangerous situations and has to use all of his skills to survive. By the end of the movie he really is pretty beat up and tired after all that he's been through, which is not something that you normally see happening with heroes of some average action movies. Powers Boothe and Kate Hodge were also good, but at the same time not usual cliché cop characters. Soundtrack is solid as a rock, Hardline songs really fit the film and they are used in right scenes. Score works in action scenes, specially in fight scene between Brandon and Al Leong. Script and story might be cliché, but it's nothing worth of ranting. In the end,very good action movie, and with Halloween 4 and Marked For Death one of my fave movies from director Dwight H. Little, and i think that it should have some better DVD/Blu-Ray release cause it has it's fans, and there is enough interesting behind the scenes stuff and deleted footage that should be included.

Rapid Fire starts in Los Angeles where Chinese student Jake Lo (Brandon Lee) is invited to a fun raising party in aid of helping those in his own country, while at the party a drug trafficker named Carl Chang (Michael Paul Chan) is murdered by Californian drug lord & mobster Antonio Serrano (Nick Mancuso) which Jake is witness to. Jake manages to survive Serrano's attempts to kill him at the party & is placed in protective custody as the only living eye-witness, various Government agencies have been after Serrano for years & it is felt that Jake's testimony could put him away for life but after being handed over to the FED's in Chicago another attempt on his life is made but again using his wits & martial art skills Jake manages to survive. Unable to trust anyone & with nowhere to go a cop named Mace Ryan (Powers Boothe) manages to convince Jake to trust him. Ryan has been after Serrano for ten years & sees Jake as the key to nailing him & together they team up to being Serrano down & those who grow & supply the heroin...Directed by Dwight H. Little this incredibly formulaic action thriller is perhaps most notable for featuring Brandon Lee the ill fated son of martial arts legend Bruce Lee in his final completed film as he would be accidentally killed while shooting his next film The Crow (1993), to be honest Rapid Fire is completely unremarkable in every aspect & while it's not terrible it's pretty forgettable & far from special. Rapid Fire just feels like it has been thrown together using every action thriller cliché going, the fish out of water hero, betrayal, one good honest cop willing to do what's right while those around him are corrupt, an American mobster, drug deals gone bad, Chinese gangsters & lots of men in grey suits who walk around trying to look tough. The whole script feels like it has been cobbled together trying to use just about every action thriller cliché & stereotype that it all became a bit of a blur & it was all too familiar. On it's own the familiarity wouldn't have been so bad if the action made up for it but even this is routine & predictable. The dialogue is pretty bland, the bland character's do little to life Rapid Fire above average either, there are many better action films out there with even the generic sounding title Rapid Fire not inspiring much interest. The script does try to inject a little human tragedy & give it's main character a little bit of background as the massacre in Tienanmen Square is featured but this angle is quickly dropped as is Lee's quest to find out the truth about his dead father.I suppose the biggest disappointment with Rapid Fire was that the action scenes are so dull, virtually every one is not much more than people shooting at each other & no-one seems able to hit Brandon Lee obviously even though they are a few feet away. When Brandon Lee does get to show off his martial art skills the film livens up a bit but they aren't used enough & over too quickly. There's not much other action, a car blow's up, a truck overturns & there's a fire at the end but not much else. The best sequence is at the end as Brandon Lee fights the Chinese drug lord on train tracks which leads to an obvious death for the bad guy but it's as good as the film gets really. The film looks alright but has no great visual style or substance.With a supposed budget of about $10,000,000 this has decent production values but even back then that wasn't a lot of money for a big action flick. The acting is alright, Brandon Lee is watchable enough while Powers Boothe doesn't seem that interested.Rapid Fire is as routine & forgettable a 90's action thriller as there is, Rapid Fire is the type of film that you think you have seen before & you definitely have except with different actor's as there really isn't an original moment in the entire 95 minute duration.

**SPOILERS** Rapid fire and non-stop action with Brandon Lee-the late Buce Lee's #1 son- as art student and martial arts expert Jake Lo. Jake takes on the Chicago crime Syndicate and it's drug suppliers who, as Jake is battling both of them, are at war with each other over how to split the drug profits and who's to get the lion's share of them.Jake's a survivor of the Tienanmen Square massacre back in 1989-when he was a US exchange student in China- where his dad, who worked for the US State Department, ended up getting crushed by a Red Chinese tank. Since then Jake has been suffering from deep guilt feelings in that he wasn't able to save his dad when he really needed saving. Back in L.A while attending a fund raiser for Tienanmen Square victims, like his dad, Jake ends up witnessing out of out town Chicago's mob boss Tony Serrano, Nick Mancuso, murder one of L.A's top drug dealers Carl Chang, Michael Paul Chan. This happened when a defiant Chang refused to cut Serrano in on his very profitable illegal drug business.Serrano determined to keep Jake from talking sends his hit-men to track down and shut up, by putting a bullet in his head, Jake permanently. Put under around the clock federal protection Jake ends up in a Chicago safe-house only to get his cover blown by the very people, the FBI Agent, who were assigned to protect him. As things turned out, when they looked like they were about to turn on him, Jake was rescued by, in fighting the city's police corruption, Chicago Dirty Harry-like cop Det. Mace Ryan, Powers Boothe. It's Ryan who's been trying to get the goods on Serrano for the last ten years and now with Jake's as an eye-witness to him murdering Chang he feels he finally got them or him.***SPOILER ALERT*** The movie "Rapid Fire" takes a sudden U-turn in what later was to be an even more formative hood then Sarrano for Jake & Ryan to tangle with who turned out to be Tommy Tau, Kinman Ta. Tau by having him knocked off ended up taking over Sarrano's city drug operations that he was, back in the Far East, the main supplier of. Both Jake & Ryan together with Chicago lady cop Karla Winters, Kate Hodge, find out just how, with Jake working on the inside, Tau is smuggling his drugs into the city right under the Chicago Police Department and FBI's noses! Tau has them hidden inside the clean and sparkling white sheets that are washed and dry cleaned at his downtown Chicago laundry factory! It's when the bullets, as well as fists and feet, start flying Jake by going solo, with both Ryan and Karla neutralized by Tau's henchmen, ends up putting and end to Tau's drug operations. Jake does that by putting and end, together with his army of hoodlums, to Tau himself in the movies electrifying final sequence! Jake also puts an end to the guilt he's been having over his father's tragic death by preventing-in fate giving him a second chance- the same thing from happening to his friend and what seems like adopted father figure Det. Mace Ryan.