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.Lee was reportedly in talks with 20th Century Fox about making Rapid Fire 2, prior to his death.School scenes were filmed at Occidental College in Los Angeles.Many of the fight scenes were orchestrated by Lee,which 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.
Plot summary
In Thailand, at a stick fighting competition, Antonio Serrano meets drug kingpin kinman tau (Tzi Ma). Antonio is a mafia drug distributor who wants to work with tau. After a disagreement, Tau cannot offer him a job. Tau goes into the competition and fights off two competitors. Tau walks up to Serrano and says "don't ask what you can take". 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 killing party sponsor Carl Chang (Michael Paul Chan), who was an associate of Tau. Placed under protective custody by federal agents, Jake is brought to Chicago to testify against Serrano. Stewert, an FBI agent, guides Jake to a house. The danger happens when two FBI agents shoot another agent. Jake fights them off. He tries to escape through a bathroom window, but finds out its been glazed. He gets a pitchfork through the glazing. One of the agents come in, Lo kills him with the pitchfork. He pushes the body through the glazing and escapes through the window. While running under the train tracks,a cop named Karla Withers (Kate Hodge) tries to stop him while another cop comes . Lo sees the FBI agent who tried to kill him. He takes Karla's gun and puts it to her head. He tells the cop he didn't do anything wrong before he runs away.It turns out nick works for Antonio.Lo calls nick to meet tonight at a cul-de-sac ,which is interfered by cops.when Lo goes there he sees a police car. Chicago cop mace Ryan (Powers Boothe) comes out to say that if he still wants to keep breathing, he can't move.But nick tells he a traitor,but finds out the truth when Antonio's men come out.Jake teams up with grizzled Chicago cop Ryan who has been after Tau for 10 years, Karla turn out to be Ryan's partner and punches Jake in the stomach for what he did. 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.Soon Jake talks to Karla about his father. They begin to think about it and they become romantically involved. Serrano'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 he finds out tau has captured Ryan and Karla. Tau manages to run away. Jake fights with one of Tau's tough henchmen (Al Leong) and forcing Jake to kill his way to a confrontation with Tau on the tracks of the Chicago 'L', where Tau is electrocuted on the tracks, and then Tau is hit and killed by an 'L' train.
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