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Robert Lawrence Productions

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Rapid Fire

Name: Rapid Fire
Released: 1992-08-21T00:00:00.000000Z
Rating: 6.4

Unarmed and extremely dangerous.

1992 • 95 min • ★ 6.4 (264) • Released

Action Crime Drama Thriller

College student Jake Lo is pursued by smugglers, mobsters and crooked federal agents after he witnesses a murder by a Mafia kingpin.

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Original title: Rapid Fire
Language: EN
Country: US
Budget: $10,000,000
Revenue: $14,356,479

Reviews & Ratings 1

Reb_Brown

Apr 3, 2018 · via TMDB

★ 6.0

This ranks alongside **KING OF NEW YORK** as a spiritual not-quite-sequel to **YEAR OF THE DRAGON**. Let's put a few of the same characters in Chicago, with Raymond J. Barry in essentially the same role (though now even more overtly crooked and with the FBI) and swap out that Thai drug baron John Lone visited with Tzi Ma and now throw in Bruce Lee's son into the mix. Bring in horror director Dwight H. Little (fresh off his other successful action outing **MARKED FOR DEATH**) and see what we get? Well, the results are a bit of a mixed bag for sure. While the action sequences are largely okay, the plot doesn't really throw us any surprises. The romance between Brandon and a female police officer falls flat on its face and the surrogate father-son dynamic he has with grizzled cop Powers Boothe feels similarly forced and awkward. Also, why is a big Chinese drug shipment being brought in via the Port of Chicago when anywhere on the West Coast would be 1000x more convenient? Plot contrivances galore, plus a really goofy Tienamen Square flashback make for just a little too much dumb writing to take seriously. That said, Brandon Lee, though still a bit rough around the edges, is tremendously charismatic as the lead. His character seems very much a humanized fish out of water and his handling of the numerous martial arts sequences makes us lament his untimely passing that much more. Dwight's action highlights come near the start with a very John Woo inspired shootout in an art gallery and reach their crescendo mid-movie with a hapless gang of Italian wannabe mobsters turning their besieged restaurant HQ into a fortress. Nick Mancuso, the primary antagonist of the picture, really shines as a somehow likable pathetic wimp of a mob boss. He's a lot of fun to watch, and its unfortunate that his character leaves the film prior to the third act, which turns into a straight-up dig on John Woo with a very low-stakes cliched battle in a Chinese... laundromat / factory (???). Both Tzi Ma and Al Leong get in some quality martial arts time with Brandon, but it's still so much more fun to see him in a fisticuffs match with giant brute Tony Longo in that mid-movie restaurant scene. As it is, **Rapid Fire** has a lot of fun 80's/early-90's-style action in it and sits comfortably next to the likes of **RAW DEAL** and **HARD TO KILL** in terms of quality. Had it not been saddled with a lame script that plays its cards way too soon, it could have been a lot more. Leave it to Brandon's final film **THE CROW** to finally deliver the action goods to end up defining one of Hollywood's most tragically brief and promising careers.

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Cast 36

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 Gazzi

Michael Paul Chan

Carl Chang

Dustin Nguyen

Paul Yang

Basil Wallace

Agent Wesley

Al Leong

Minh

François Chau

Farris

Maurice Chasse

Sharpie

John Vickery

Detective

Donald Li

Tall Guard

Jeff McCarthy

Agent Anderson

Steve Pickering

Cop in Van

Ronald William Lawrence

Jail Guard

Richard Schiff

Art Teacher

Roy Abramsohn

Agent Klein

Cedric Young

Chicago Cop

Russell Peters

Ambulance Driver

Carl Ciarfalio

Serrano Gunman (uncredited)

Eddy Donno

Grey-Haired Serrano Henchman (uncredited)

Kenny Endoso

Tau Gunman at Party (uncredited)

Nathan Jung

Tau Gunman at Laundry (uncredited)

Gene LeBell

Red Haired Serrano Gunman (uncredited)

Leo Lee

Tau Gunman at Laundry (uncredited)

Fred Lerner

Gunman with Shotgun (uncredited)

John C. Meier

Gunman (uncredited)

Gerald Okamura

Tau Henchman at Laundry (uncredited)

Charlie Picerni

Driver of Gunman Car (uncredited)

Chuck Picerni Jr.

Gunman at Serrano's (uncredited)

Steve Picerni

Gunman (uncredited)

Bill Saito

Tau Gunman at Party (uncredited)

James Lew

Tau's Men at Laundry (uncredited)

Crew 57

Brandon Lee

Fight Choreographer

Jeff Imada

Stunt Coordinator

Al Goto

Stunts

Barbara Anne Klein

Stunts

Bill Saito

Stunts

Brian Imada

Stunts

Carl Ciarfalio

Stunts

Charles Croughwell

Stunts

Charlie Picerni

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Chino Binamo

Stunts

Chuck Picerni Jr.

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Chuck Zito

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Cole S. McKay

Stunts

Darryl Chan

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Eddie J. Fernandez

Stunts

Frank Ferrara Sr.

Stunts

Fred Lerner

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Freddie Hice

Stunts

Gene LeBell

Stunts

George Cheung

Stunts

Gerald Okamura

Stunts

Henry Kingi

Stunts

Henry Kingi Jr.

Stunts

J.P. Romano

Stunts

James Fierro

Stunts

James Lew

Stunts

Jeff Bornstein

Stunts

Jeff Cadiente

Stunts

John C. Meier

Stunts

John Casino

Stunts

John Cenatiempo

Stunts

Kenny Endoso

Stunts

Leo Lee

Stunts

Linda Perlin

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Manny Perry

Stunts

Mark De Alessandro

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Mark Harper

Stunts

Nathan Jung

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Norman Howell

Stunts

Pete Antico

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Ric Roman Waugh

Stunts

Rick Avery

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Rick LeFevour

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Roger Yuan

Stunts

Steve Boyum

Stunts

Steve Picerni

Stunts

Steve Santosusso

Stunts

Stuart Quan

Stunts

Tim A. Davison

Stunts

Tony Brubaker

Stunts

Dwight H. Little

Director

Debi Manwiller

Casting

Sharon Bialy

Casting

John Fasano

Executive Producer

Christopher Young

Original Music Composer

Alan B. McElroy

Screenplay

Alan B. McElroy

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US Release Dates 1

Aug 21, 1992

R Theatrical