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Rapid Fire (1992)
Starring: Brandon Lee, Powers Boothe Director: Dwight H. Little
Brandon Lee’s penultimate picture isn’t much on paper -- a dour college kid, bitter over his activist father’s death in Tiananmen Square, is targeted by a Chicago mobster after witnessing a gangland killing and reluctantly joins forces with brooding, obsessed cop Powers
Boothe -- but then who was watching this for the story?
Rapid Fire
- DVD (1992) Consider this his screen test for the superior The Crow.
Lee bites off bad dialogue with surly sneers, swaggers through scenes with the confidence of a movie veteran, and moves... well, his moves are the real reason to see the film.
Nick Mancuso has a good time as the weasely mobster getting sloppy in his desperation, and Powers plays the father figure with less conviction than sheer tenacity, but Brandon Lee is the star-in-the-making of this production.
This, unfortunately, is no star vehicle, but it provides enough bone-crunching, butt-kicking martial arts action for any action junkie.
Rapid Fire
- DVD (1992)
Encoding: Region 1 (US and Canada only)
Format: Color, Closed-captioned
Rated: Not for sale to persons under age 18.
Studio: Fox Home Entertainme
DVD Features:
- Brandon Lee Profile
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Featurette
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Widescreen anamorphic format
Other Formats: VHS,
VHS
subtitled in Spanish
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