jonathanmark-77048 Plot: When student Jake Lo witnesses a killing, he finds himself caught between two feuding drug lords. Betrayed and set up by the federal agents protecting him, the only one he can trust is Ryan, a single-minded Chicago cop who reminds Jake of his deceased father. To clear his name, Jake agrees to help Ryan bring down the drug lords.This is an action movie that never stops with the action as soon as the action starts, it is fast paced, never boring, and doesn't resort to shoving politics down your throat like some do nowadays. I wish Brandon Lee was still alive, because he had the charisma and charm that you want in an action star, I would've loved to have seen him as Johnny cage in Mortal Kombat, that would have been awesome. Powers Boothe is also a lot of fun which is great to see, since he didn't get that chance very often in his career.This film should be watched by anybody that wants to see action that has no shaky cam, fast cuts, or tricky editing like some do nowadays, you can see what's going on which I appreciate for once. The story is actually pretty good and gets you engaged throughout the movie. Give this a chance along with Showdown in Little Tokyo which is another fun one with him and Dolph Lundgren, you won't regret watching either one of them.

edwagreen Disappointing film that is somewhat saved by some excellent action scenes. The shootings, wreck scenes, car chases and other excitement are about the best of what this weak film has to offer.Having survived the uprising in China's square in 1989, Lee is to be honored only to witness a rub-out of someone by a mafia type person dealing in heroin.The film becomes one of who shall be trusted. Cops really aren't cops and this can become confusing at times.Lee is taken in charge of by veteran cop Powers Boothe and the two team up to thwart the drug ring. Of course, when Boothe catches a bullet at the end of the film, Lee rushes in to save him from a raging fire. The film might have been better had they further emphasized the rapport that had been building between the two.

sol1218 **SPOILERS** Rapid fire and non-stop action with Brandon Lee-the late Buce Lee's #1 son- as art student and martial arts expert Jake Lo. Jake takes on the Chicago crime Syndicate and it's drug suppliers who, as Jake is battling both of them, are at war with each other over how to split the drug profits and who's to get the lion's share of them.Jake's a survivor of the Tienanmen Square massacre back in 1989-when he was a US exchange student in China- where his dad, who worked for the US State Department, ended up getting crushed by a Red Chinese tank. Since then Jake has been suffering from deep guilt feelings in that he wasn't able to save his dad when he really needed saving. Back in L.A while attending a fund raiser for Tienanmen Square victims, like his dad, Jake ends up witnessing out of out town Chicago's mob boss Tony Serrano, Nick Mancuso, murder one of L.A's top drug dealers Carl Chang, Michael Paul Chan. This happened when a defiant Chang refused to cut Serrano in on his very profitable illegal drug business.Serrano determined to keep Jake from talking sends his hit-men to track down and shut up, by putting a bullet in his head, Jake permanently. Put under around the clock federal protection Jake ends up in a Chicago safe-house only to get his cover blown by the very people, the FBI Agent, who were assigned to protect him. As things turned out, when they looked like they were about to turn on him, Jake was rescued by, in fighting the city's police corruption, Chicago Dirty Harry-like cop Det. Mace Ryan, Powers Boothe. It's Ryan who's been trying to get the goods on Serrano for the last ten years and now with Jake's as an eye-witness to him murdering Chang he feels he finally got them or him.***SPOILER ALERT*** The movie "Rapid Fire" takes a sudden U-turn in what later was to be an even more formative hood then Sarrano for Jake & Ryan to tangle with who turned out to be Tommy Tau, Kinman Ta. Tau by having him knocked off ended up taking over Sarrano's city drug operations that he was, back in the Far East, the main supplier of. Both Jake & Ryan together with Chicago lady cop Karla Winters, Kate Hodge, find out just how, with Jake working on the inside, Tau is smuggling his drugs into the city right under the Chicago Police Department and FBI's noses! Tau has them hidden inside the clean and sparkling white sheets that are washed and dry cleaned at his downtown Chicago laundry factory! It's when the bullets, as well as fists and feet, start flying Jake by going solo, with both Ryan and Karla neutralized by Tau's henchmen, ends up putting and end to Tau's drug operations. Jake does that by putting and end, together with his army of hoodlums, to Tau himself in the movies electrifying final sequence! Jake also puts an end to the guilt he's been having over his father's tragic death by preventing-in fate giving him a second chance- the same thing from happening to his friend and what seems like adopted father figure Det. Mace Ryan.

ccthemovieman-1 I'm not into a lot of these martial-arts pictures pre-"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" years, but Brandon Lee was a cool guy to watch. What a shame this son of the famous Bruce Lee died so young.This picture was good....for the first 15 minutes. Then it descended into the Rambo- mentality mode in which the good guys don't get harmed but all the bad guys do, despite 1,000-1 odds on that happening. In other words, this had no credibility. For example, six people are firing machine guns at Lee while our hero has no weapons.....yet he escapes unharmed. Some of the action scenes look hokey, too. They are so much better these days. No disrespect for Mr. Lee, but it is this kind of movie that gave martial arts films a bad name in the general public for a long time.