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Rapid Fire | Year: 1992 Classification: Action Directed: - Dwight H.Little Actors/Actresses: - Brandon Lee - Powers Boothe Brandon Lee In Explosive Martial Arts Action!!! Brandon Lee, an exceptional martial artist in his own right, stars in this Hong Kong style action movie. Full of flying feet, guns blasting, and bombs blowing up. Lee shows us his skills in kung fu and Muay Thai as he goes up against the Italian mafia and the Chinese triads. His physical abilities are incredible, with his body sculpted to near perfection, like his father, Bruce Lee. Lee keeps up the legend using his father's style but he also takes it a step further when he combines it with Jackie Chan's style when he engages in battle. Also full of amazing stunts this movie is a must watch if you are an action fan, martial arts fan, or a fan of the legendary Lees. It is sad that Brandon Lee is gone, but in "Rapid Fire" and his other movies, he will live forever. 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. Brandon Lee - Great Martial Arts Movie Lik showdown in little tokyo Brandon Lee stole this movie and made it a great flick. If anyone else had been the start it just wouldn't have worked as well. This movie is full of great martial arts moves, comedy, and a decent cast. Powers Boothe is really great in this, one of the few movies i've liked him in besides Red Dawn. It has it's stupid moments and corny one liners, but in no way are they as bad as Showndown in Little Tokyo. Brandon Lee looks great in this movie and has some great moves i would love to learn for myself. I'm suprised he didn't get more recognition from this movie before The Crow came out.<BR>This movie is entertaining and a certain scene with a "train" was even copied in a video game called "blood" as a tribute, it's a classic movie moment. Good action flick, great Brandon Lee Movie. Add this to your collection if your a martial arts and a Brand Lee Fan and you won't regret it. I'll be buying this on DVD asap. One of my favorite moves from this movie is definetly the double punch of "Cerrano", Fist first then the elbow, in one quick motion. Awesome. Among the martial arts/action elite No matter how many times I watch this movie, it never seems to get old. Combining elements of American action shoot 'em ups with the chop-socky combat of the Hong Kong martial arts genre, "Rapid Fire" seems bent on squeezing as many action sequences as possible into its brisk 90-minute running time. However, in between fight scenes, the writers and director actually take time for little things like plot and character development, which are too often lacking in martial arts flicks (can you say Steven Seagal)? The main characters, Brandon Lee's reluctant crime fighter and Powers Boothe's grizzled cop, actually have some beliefs and internal conflicts that motivate their actions. And on top of that, there are some actors in this movie who can actually act! In the action department, the fight scenes are extremely well done, devoid of camera tricks, multiple angles, fancing directing, or any other gimmicks that distract from the fight scenes themselves. It seems the makers of this film knew what they had in Brandon Lee and let him and the other actors carry the action on their own, a decision that definitely paid off. Highly recommended for those who want a little brains to go with their action. Buy Rapid Fire at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.com Jamster - the latest ringtones for your phone!  Search with Walhello on the Internet on Rapid Fire Search with the Priority Search Engine on Rapid Fire This page in other languages: Suomeksi | Nederlands | Deutsch
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