Griff Lees Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Lucia Ayala It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Leofwine_draca A well-made, well-executed action thriller which has more than enough violence, shooting, and explosions for the average male movie fan. While the plot may be a clichéd and familiar one, along with the characters and the senseless sentimentalising (they even throw in a couple of flashbacks), a better cast than usual makes this film more enjoyable than most and the extended action scenes are slick and never less than exciting.There are plenty of amazing stunts, car crashes, and shoot-outs to keep the casual viewer occupied, but this film really comes into its own with the hand-to-hand combat scenes involving Lee and various opponents. These are well-shot and choreographed (by Lee himself), fast moving but not so fast that you can't see what's happening. Weapons, poles, knives, guns, motorbikes, and even fridge doors are brought into play during this film's course. The timing is just right. The fights are all in varied locations, ranging from the typical (office, factory) to the unusual (kitchen, train track).As for the acting, well, it's not brilliant but it'll pass. The best of the bunch is Powers Boothe, who is pretty good as a sympathetic cop (love that scene where he takes out a speeding car). Brandon Lee is okay as the hero, but still wooden, even if he is less wooden than pals Lundgren or Van Damme. The actors playing the bad guys are wonderfully evil in an over the top way. The little bearded Chinese guy from DIE HARD, Al Leong, turns up as a chief villain and has an excellent martial arts battle with our hero at the end. If you're a fan of B action movies, then you're in for a treat with this one, as rarely are they as well polished as this is (check out any of Chuck Norris' movies if you want a clear example). When a film has more action and excitement than plot, you know you're on to a good thing, so check it out!

bowmanblue Like many, I only really found out about the late (and very great) Brandon Lee after his tragic role in 'The Crow.' Tracking back through his earlier work, this was undoubtedly his best (other) film. It really does sum up what was great about nineties action films and, sadder still, shows just how good Lee could have been if he had lived after The Crow wrapped.Lee plays a student who witnesses a gangland murder and requires police protection to stay alive. However, the police seem about as good at protecting him as a roomful of toddlers. But, luckily for the hapless boys and girls in blue, Lee is much better at protecting them when the gangsters return! By today's standards 'Rapid Fire' may be considered as a little too cheesy and not dark enough. That could be true. If you only want to watch dark and serious action epics then you're better off with a Bourne film or Daniel Craig's Bond incarnation. I would say that Rapid Fire doesn't take itself seriously, only it does, but only in that way that most eighties/nineties action movies did, i.e. they had a sense of disbelief and light-heartedness that today's movies don't.The police are spectacularly incompetent and the villains are deliciously villainous, therefore it's great fun to watch Brandon Lee punch, kick, flip and generally right all the necessary wrongs for ninety minutes. He may not have quite honed his martial arts skills to those of his father's, but he was definitely getting there and there are – naturally – plenty of fun fight scenes involved.In fact, if I could sum up this film in one word, it would be 'fun.' It's a nice little popcorn action film that doesn't require any major thought to go into appreciating it – just a love of 'pre-serious' action classics.And if you can sit through the weird-montage s*x scene without visible questions marks appearing over your head then you obviously 'get' this film (or whatever the director was trying to say) more than me!

chunkybuttsam Being the son of a legend isn't easy, especially when you're the son of Martial Artist Bruce Lee. That was the predicament that Brandon Lee was put in, and soon comparisons to his dad were hard to avoid. Even with his first film in Showdown in Little Tokyo, Lee was clearly going to get some kind of comparison to his dad. Of course Brandon never was as great of a martial artist as his dad, but to me he was a better actor despite being dealt with bad one liners in his debut. For his second effort he goes solo, though he doesn't do so with the most convincing act.Clearly a star vehicle for Lee, Rapid Fire delivers what it needs to and no more. The action does enough to be entertaining due to decent production values, but the story is mostly third rate at best. Jake Lo (Lee) is a college student who is good at drawing, especially a model that takes an interest in him. After being dragged to a party, he witnesses a murder by drug kingpin Antonio Serrano (Nick Mancuso) and somehow escapes his clutches.Of course he doesn't get away clean and ends up being arrested. That is until he tells the cops the story, and he is transported to Chicago to testify against Serrano. But when a few dirty agents want to take him out, Lo goes all out and has to team up with local cop Mace Ryan (Powers Boothe) if he wants to live another week. Eventually Ryan uses Jake as bait to lure Serrano into giving details about a drug deal, but all hell breaks loose again and soon another drug dealer comes into play that Jake will have to take down as well.Rapid Fire is not without merit, but one cannot help that it should have had more action and less story. Story can only take an action movie so far, and perhaps it takes Rapid Fire too far to the point of near boredom. Of course with Brandon Lee as the star he never makes Rapid Fire boring, but he sure as hell doesn't make it as worthwhile as The Crow. When Rapid Fire sticks to the action, it generally entertains. When it goes for dramatics, they seem to bog down Rapid Fire's fast pace approach.The basic story of Rapid Fire is adequate, though not the most intelligent story you could get out of an action film. When Lee kicks ass despite being a pacifist, it creates unexpected thrills and actually keep us in the movie. When he flashes back to his past, it gets a little too sappy and adds little depth to a movie that should contain more action. As the film progresses, the story seems to run out of energy and never quite knows where to end. The main problem is that Rapid Fire gets tangled into too many subplots that feel rather irrelevant, and they seem to restrict what Rapid Fire could have been.Lee was capable as an action star, but as a leading man he wasn't quite ready to make the leap. He looks the part and seems to fit the leading role, but he doesn't take charge the way his dad did. He feels more like an afterthought in Rapid Fire despite being the lead attraction, and it's not just the story that makes him forgettable. It's the lack of truly impressive action pieces that make Lee barely better than Chuck Norris or Jean Claude Van Damme here, even with a few glass shattering sequences that occasionally entertain.The villain, or villains, are mostly just nameless presences that don't add much to the story other than characters that get their asses kicked by Brandon Lee. The cops that help Lee are somewhat amusing, but they're played out typecast roles at best here. Only Boothe gets some kind of background story, but even then we don't feel all that much emotion for a cop who gets too greedy in trying to nab a drug kingpin. In giving us another villain, Rapid Fire gets desperate at creating more thrills when it should have stuck to a better story.Some of the action pieces in Rapid Fire work, but not many of them seem to work well. They sustain our attention just enough to get some joy out of Brandon Lee kicking ass in his first lead role, but to be honest they don't make us cheer enough for the good guys. When the story is at its most basic, the action actually can be entertaining. But with layers of story there comes a price, and the price that Rapid Fire pays is thrilling action. Rapid Fire isn't weak, but it never seems to be better than the best Jean Claude Van Damme effort.Grade: C

disdressed12 i watched this movie years ago,and thought it was nothing short of astonishing.i guess our tastes change as we grow older.don't get me wrong,i still think it's a fairly decent movie.the problem is,many movies of this genre could be considered fairly decent.(and many would not be)there are 2 things which set this movie apart from some in the genre.1 is the fantastic and spectacular fight scenes.the other is the screen presence and charisma of the late Brandon Lee.without these 2 elements,i think this movie would be slightly above average.as a matter of fact,i was bored at times and thought the movie dragged.as it is,however"Rapid Fire" gets 3.5 stars from me.