Rapid Fire (1992 film)
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| Rapid Fire | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Dwight H. Little |
| Produced by | Robert Lawrence |
| Written by | Cindy Cirile |
| Starring | Brandon Lee |
| Music by | Christopher Young |
| Cinematography | Ric Waite |
| Editing by | Gib Jaffe |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
| Release date(s) | August 21, 1992 |
| Running time | 95 min |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
| IMDb profile | |
Rapid Fire is a 1992 action film starring the late Brandon Lee in his first leading role in an American film and the last film to be released while he was alive.
[edit] Plot summary
Turned off from politics after witnessing the death of his father at Tiananmen Square in China, Los Angeles art student Jake Lo (Brandon Lee) is lured to a party of Chinese pro-democracy activists by a sexy figure model from one of his art classes.
While there, Jake witnesses Antonio Serrano (Nick Mancuso) killing party sponsor Carl Chang (Michael Paul Chan), who was an associate of drug kingpin Kinman Tau (Tzi Ma).
Serrano is a mafia drug distributor who wants a bigger piece of Tau's business. Placed under protective custody by federal agents, Jake is brought to Chicago to testify against Serrano, and Lo barely escapes an attempt on his life by corrupt FBI agents.
With nowhere else to turn, Jake teams up with grizzled Chicago cop Mace Ryan (Powers Boothe), who has been after Tau for 10 years, and Jake becomes romantically involved with Ryan's partner, Karla Withers (Kate Hodge).
Ryan uses Jake as bait to lure Serrano into giving details of his next big drug shipment. But the arrest of Serrano turns into a battle of bullets, fists, and feet. When the smoke clears, Serrano has been arrested, but he's killed in jail by one of Tau's henchmen, forcing Ryan to use Jake once again as a pigeon.
Posing as a worker, Jake is sent into the heart of Tau's industrial laundry operation to find out how Tau manages to process his imported opium without soiling any shirts.
Jake succeeds, but things go haywire, forcing Jake to kill his way to a confrontation with Tau on the tracks of the Chicago El, where Tau is electrocuted on the tracks, and then Tau is hit and killed by an El train.
[edit] Cast
- Brandon Lee as Jake Lo
- Powers Boothe as Mace Ryan
- Nick Mancuso as Antonio Serrano
- Raymond J. Barry as Agent Frank Stewart
- Kate Hodge as Karla Withers
- Tzi Ma as Kinman Tau
- Tony Longo as Brunner
- Michael Paul Chan as Carl Chang
[edit] Trivia
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- Many of the fight scenes were orchestrated by Lee.
- The fights contain elements of his father's, Bruce Lee, Jeet Kune Do fighting style.
- Brandon Lee originally wanted John Woo to direct the film but the production company wanted a martial arts film so decided against it
- Lee accidentally broke his toe while filming a scene where he had to kick an oak door, the scene was never included in the movie.
- School scenes were filmed at Occidental College in Los Angeles.
