Rapid Fire

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Rapid Fire

Rapid Fire is pretty much wall to wall action with very occasional breathers for plot development and one perfunctory sex scene. It all comes across as a glorified music video with a large body count. Nothing special.

"Rapid Fire" will not claim any awards for originality of plot (this is a simple, straightforward B-movie compared to Brandon Lee's next, last and best film, "The Crow"), but it moves fast, and the action scenes are exciting and well-staged. Lee is charismatic, athletic, impressive; he had the stuff to be an action star (he's like a likable Steven Seagal who can act). He uses both brain and brawn to escape from sticky situations. Yes he brushes off a few too many injuries, but that's par for the course in this genre. Kate Hodge, whose career never quite took off, makes for a sexy love interest. **1/2 out of 4.

I'm not into a lot of these martial-arts pictures pre-"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" years, but Brandon Lee was a cool guy to watch. What a shame this son of the famous Bruce Lee died so young. This picture was good....for the first 15 minutes. Then it descended into the Rambo- mentality mode in which the good guys don't get harmed but all the bad guys do, despite 1,000-1 odds on that happening. In other words, this had no credibility. For example, six people are firing machine guns at Lee while our hero has no weapons.....yet he escapes unharmed. Some of the action scenes look hokey, too. They are so much better these days. No disrespect for Mr. Lee, but it is this kind of movie that gave martial arts films a bad name in the general public for a long time.

Highly formulaic action picture, Brandon Lee's last fully completed film. It's far inferior to the stylish, almost poetic "Crow", and Lee's fighting skills aren't quite in the class of those that his father presented in his movies, but it's not too bad if you're looking for a childish, painless actioner, where a shootout breaks out every three minutes.

I only saw this because the late Brandon Lee was in it. His acting was so good in "The Crow", I wondered how he was before that. Sadly, not that good. He was a very handsome man with a beautiful body (nice butt too), but his acting is pretty stiff. He's not horrible just not good. I guess between this and "The Crow" he learned a lot. The film itself is OK--typical fare. The scenes where Lee uses martial arts are impressive and the acting is pretty good by everybody else. So an OK action flick--it'll probably only be remembered as the second to last film Lee made before his tragic death.

One of Brandon Lee's best films is Rapid Fire! Powers Boothe, Nick Mancuso, Tony Longo, Tzi Ma, Kate Hodge, Al Leong also star! The action is very good in this movie and in fact in My opinion its some of the neatest fighting action in a movie! The music is by composer Christopher Young which it is a very different score! The acting in the film is solid. Brandon Lee did a lot in this film and his fights with Tony Long and Al Leong were very good! I think that Lee had a potential to be a huge star because this film proves it! If you like big time action in a film with martial arts and are a fan of Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris, Steven Seagal, Jean Claude Van-Damme, Bolo Yeung, Michel Qissi, and Jet Li and want to see Brandon Lee and Powers Boothe in different performances then Rapid Fire is a good one to watch!

Jake (Brandon Lee) gets caught up between feuding drug lords and witnesses a killing, making him Mace Ryan's (Powers Boothe's) new best friend. While helping the cops with their investigations, he becomes more than a witness, he becomes the man to save the day. Packed with Gunfights and Great Kung Fu, this movie is a must for fans of the genre. After Showdown in little Tokyo and preceding the Crow, this was sadly Brandons pen-ultimate movie and he is, like his father a big loss to the movie world. For Brandon Lee fans, or indeed Kung Fu Movie Fans, this is a must see. Rest in peace Brandon, your public misses you. 7/10