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 | USA:R (certificate #31442) | Canada:R (Manitoba/Nova Scotia) | 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:

Crew or equipment visible: During the opening shot the dolly tracks are visible on the ground.

Quotes:

Rosalyn: [looking at a sketch that Jake has drawn of her with a large dragon behind her] Wow... is that me...?
Jake Lo: No, you're the dragon.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "E! True Hollywood Story: Brandon Lee" (1997)

Soundtrack:

Can't Find My Way

Brandon's best martial arts picture

Bruce's son gets the Hollywood B-movie treatment in this all-out action fest that stands as one of his better pictures, featuring a roguish yet charming Brandon fighting like his father in scenes that frankly appear out of place in an American action picture of its time. Thankfully, Brandon neglects the deadly stares and patriotic words of his father and offers us a totally different image altogether: Brandon is hip-talking, cool, equipped with an attractive physique and razor-sharp kung fu. He plays Jake Lo, a bike-riding Chinese-American who gets himself caught up in a plight to bring to justice a mighty drug trafficker after he witnesses him murder a client. Soon Jake is enlisted to be used as bait in the police's attempts to root out the drug lord. Throw in a load of gunfights and fisticuffs and we have quite a meaty actioner on our hands, complete with Hong Kong-style choreography supervised by Brandon himself (the best example being a classy little battle with midget-stuntman Al Leong). Rapid Fire did prove to be Brandon's big break, and it's through his uniquely charismatic and exciting performance here that makes us acknowledge his early death with an even greater tinge of sadness.