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| ACTORS: | Brandon Lee, Powers Boothe |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Dwight H. Little |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 21 August, 1992 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Fox Home Entertainme |
| MPAA RATING: | R (Restricted) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen |
| TYPE: | Feature Film-action/Adventure |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 024543041320 |
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Customer Reviews of Rapid Fire
Decidedly small but engaging action movie. Rapid Fire does not aim at greatness the way The Crow does. But within its own parameters and ambitions, it succeeds quite well: As the first showcase for Brandon Lee as a leading man, and as a tight, small-scale action movie with a little more attention to emotional resonance than usual.
As art student Jake Lo, Lee has not quite matured fully at this stage, but he is already great to watch -- while not quite possessing of Bruce Lee's charisma and rock-hard machismo, Brandon has much more acting finesse, a terrific blend of youthful cockiness and vulnerable sensitivity, and of course, much better dialogue delivery than his venerable father. He is ably supported by the beautiful Kate Hodge, who plays a stronger and smarter female counterpart than in most action movies of this breed. Powers Boothe as crusader cop Mace is an acquired taste and Nick Mancuso overdoes his greasy-mobster thing, but it doesn't really detract from the brisk pacing, well choreographed fight scenes and a nice subplot involving the main character's involvement in the Chinese student democratic movement.
The only real dud in this movie is the sound. The gunfire in Rapid Fire sounds as weak as a food processor, many martial-arts sequences suffer from weak or missing sounds, and the '80s power-rock that accompanies the (pretty well executed) love scene and the ending definitely makes this movie seem dated. Nevertheless, a good action showpiece.
Make way for Mr. Lee!!
RAPID FIRE is definitely a kung fu movie classic, and right now, my favorite Brandon Lee movie (Just about to watch the rather under-recognized LASER MISSION.) Brandon Lee stars as college student/martial arts master Jake Lo, who refuses to join Chinese Democracy activists, since his father was murdered for the very same cause. Lo becomes entangled in a web of diaster when mafia druglord Antonio Serrano (Nick Mancuso) murders the chief distributor of a competing drug lord Kinman Tau (Tzi Ma, from RUSH HOUR)to get ahold of his drug trade. Lo has the unenviable misfortune of witnessing the whole damn thing and must join forces with crusty chicago cop Ryan (Powers Booth) and his beautiful partner (Kate Hodge) to take down both Serrano AND Tau. Once the action starts, it doesn't stop. I think the climatic battle between Brandon and asian bad guy Al Leong (whose had duels with guys like Jean-Claude Van Damme and Bruce Willis) is this movies best and easily the best in '92, and finally one of the best ever. One of the quite abundant brawls even occurs on the chicago el, where Brandon and his opponent mostly just use steel rods as their weapons. A kung fu flick to be cherished by kung fu fans, as well as Brandon Lee fans all over the world. Buy this one right now, you won't regret it.
Lee blazes!!!
Lee blazes and fights away in this sometimes good action movie but Lee is the glue that holds this up...remember the fridge part in the movie..yeah, yeah....though Lee sprouts some crappy dialouge you just cant get enough of his beautiful baby face..yes I said that...I highly recommened THE CROW because its his best and last work ever..though if you rent SHOWDOWN IN LITTLE TOKYO starring him and oppisite sucky Doplh Lundgren..somethings wrong with you